England &
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The ParishThe parish of Stoke Mandeville lies in central Buckinghamshire about 3 miles south of the county town of Aylesbury. Stoke Mandeville is a much enlarged village being a growth area for housing outside the boundaries of Aylesbury, formerly it was a small and compact village. Stoke Mandeville sits a half mile west of the A413 road which connects Aylesbury with Wendover & Amersham, a route also followed by Aylesbury's main rail line to London. At the time of this transcript Stoke Mandeville was simply a farming community, mixed farming in the heavy soils of the area. Today Stoke Mandeville is known worldwide for its hospital and the immense work done by the spinal injury unit. Stoke Mandeville is drained by numerous small brooks and field drains heading northwestwards to join the River Thame and thence via the Thames to the North Sea through the Thames Estuary. Stoke Mandeville is sited at around 100 metres above the sea and sits on the plains which butt to the escarpment of the nearby Chiltern Hills where local heights reach 260 metres on Coombe Hill. Stoke Mandeville parish was fairly typically sized for its area, covering just under 1,500 acres it would have supported a population of just under 500 parishioners. In Domesday times Stoke Mandeville was held by the Bishop of Lincoln and held 21 ploughs, small meadows & woodlands and a mill. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 3rd May 1755 - 8th February 1782 | Buckinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR196/1/1 | Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | This register suffers from fading, poor handwriting and little segregation of separation of Marriage entries making for a challenging read, it is likely that misreads and possibly omissions will have occurred and there may be quite a few |
2 | 16th June 1783 - 9th March 1809 | Buckinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR196/1/2 | Plain, unruled book, a further composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | The register is an improvement over its predecessor but still suffers from fading and poor handwriting making for a possibility of a few misreads |
3 | 26th November 1810 - 9th December 1812 | Buckinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR196/1/3 | 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 |
4 | 13th May 1813 - 29th April 1837 | Buckinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR196/1/5 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
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St John the Baptist
Hartwell St Mary the Virgin |
Aylesbury
St Mary
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Aylesbury
St Mary
Weston Turville St Mary |
Stone St John
the Baptist
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Weston Turville
St Mary
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Great
Kimble St Nicholas
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Ellesborough
St Peter & St Paul
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