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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Newbury lies in southwestern Berkshire, indeed it forms part of the border with neighbouring Hampshire. Newbury is a large market town situated about 17 miles west of the county town of Reading and 56 west of London. Newbury sits on the main A4 road which leads from London to Bath and is sited where that road crosses the A34 running north from Winchester to Oxford. The town grew up at the double crossing by the A34 of the rivers Lambourn & Kennet which join just east of Newbury. Newbury has a long history and allegedly was a Roman site known as Spinae (today's Speen). By the time of the Norman conquest Newbury was already a substantial market town trading goods for a fertile and prosperous agricultural area and something of an inland port transporting goods along the navigable Kennet to the Thames at Reading. The wool trade of the Middle Ages brought increasing prosperity as well as manufacture of woollen cloth, milling of flour and silk weaving. Today Newbury is a large town with attendant light industry and services, it's excellent access to the capital through rail and road (the M4 motorway run just to the north) links make it a commuter centre as an attractive location for business. Newbury has consequently spread for many miles in some directions from its compact early origins. The Kennet drains the parish eastwards, joining the Thames at Reading and reaching the North Sea though the Thames Estuary. Newbury is sited at around 70 metres above the sea, but local heights rise to around 50 metres higher in gently undulating landscape. Newbury parish was small by Berkshire standards it covered little more than the market town and some adjacent agricultural land, it covered just under 1,400 acres and would have supported a population of around 6,300 parishioners. IN Domesday times Newbury was still relatively small, it was held by one Arnulf of Hesdin and could offer 8 ploughs, small meadows & woodlands plus 2 mills. |
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| Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
| 1 | 25th April 1754 - 30th December 1754 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P/89/1/11 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
| 2 | 21st January 1765 - 5th October 1783 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P/89/1/12a | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
| 3 | 26th October 1783 - 16th November 1799 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P/89/1/13 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of the original register makes for a likelihood of a few misreads |
| 4 | 26th November 1799 - 25th December 1812 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P/89/1/14 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of the original register for a short section at the start of the register makes for a likelihood of a few misreads |
| 5 | 15th January 1813 - 23rd May 1837 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P/89/1/15 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of the original register makes for a likelihood of a few misreads |
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Speen
St Mary
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Speen
St Mary
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Speen
St Mary
Greenham St Mary |
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Enborne
St Michael
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Greenham
St Mary
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Highclere
St Michael, Hampshire
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Highclere
St Michael, Hampshire
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Highclere
St Michael, Hampshire
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