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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Coddington St Mary

 

The Parish

The parish of Coddington is located in southwestern Cheshire, quite close to the border with neighbouring Denbighshire. Coddington sits, in lanes, about a mile north of the A534 road which links the Denbighshire industrial town of Wrexham with Nantwich. Coddington village is a relatively small collection of farms & cottages grouped around a junction of lanes but the parish would also have included the other hamlets of Barton & Clutton along the A road. The main employer in the parish would have been agriculture and the parish was a mixture of pastoral, in the main, but with a good proportion of arable too. Coddington sits within the broad lower valley of the River Dee, a small tributary (Coddington Brook) drains the parish northwards to join that river on its journey to the Irish Sea though Chester. This is low-lying countryside, Coddington is sited at just 15 metres above the sea, the nearest high ground being several miles to the southeast. Cheshire parishes are usually quite large and Coddington, covering almost 3,000 acres, is no exception; with the other settlements the parish would have supported just over 300 parishioners. In Domesday times Coddington was quite a small settlement, it was held by one Earl Hugh of Chester together with his son Robert, it boasted just 3 ploughs but did have a meadow and a mill.


The Church

St Mary's church sits on the northern side of Aldersey Lane where it crosses the Coddington Brook. The church is a 19th century replacement for the mediaeval building which was demolished in the 1830s. The building is of the type funded by the Church Commissioners and is clearly of little architectural interest, Pevsner merely devotes a handful of lines to its description. The previous church was supposed to have been 11th century and sported a wooden belfry, it clearly would have interested the great man more. St Mary's church sits in a rather elevated position, the banks retained by a substantial block wall and a series of steps granting entry. The church is heavily screened from the south by mature trees which limit photography from that direction.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 15th July 1754 - 14th October 1819 Cheshire Record Office - Reference EDB/68 Bishop's Transcripts on loose leaf folios Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number Register prior to 1821 were destroyed in a fire at the parsonage following a burglary. The BTs are far from complete and often poorly readable, there will be certain omission (and a high volume thereof) and a few misreads present
2 8th December 1821- 15th June 1837 Cheshire Record Office P/264/2/1 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads None


Aldford St John the Baptist
Bruera St Mary
Handley All Saints
Tattenhall St Alban
Aldford St John the Baptist
Farndon St Chad
Malpas St Oswald
Farndon St Chad
Farndon St Chad
Malpas St Oswald

1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830

Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
01/01/1754 James SWINDLER     Hannah POWEL    
1 15/07/1754 George PRITCHARD     Jane BROMFIELD    
2 18/10/1754 Nathaniel POWEL   Tilston Jane SYMONDS    
3 04/11/1754 John HOPLEY   Malpas Catherine ROYDEN    
4 29/12/1754 William WOODFIN     Margaret SPEED    
5 02/06/1755 Moses DAVIES     Hannah JONES    
6 29/08/1755 John ROBERTS   Waverton Sarah ALDERSEY Single  
7 28/11/1756 Thomas DODD     Martha PEMBERTON    
8 19/12/1756 William TAYLOR     Elizabeth FENNA Widow  
9 29/08/1757 Peter LIGHTFOOT     Mary JONES   Farndon
10 05/06/1758 William HOPPER     Mary DOD    
11 13/08/1758 James CAPPER     Mary CAPPER    
12 19/12/1758 Timothy CHALONER     Jane DUTTON    
13 31/12/1758 John RAVENSCROFT     Margaret POVEY    
14 03/06/1759 Thomas HUGHES     Anne EACHUS    
15 10/06/1759 Samuel HOUGH     Jane BULLOCK    
16 28/12/1759 Ralph VERNON     Anne JONES    
17 22/04/1760 John PINK   Tilston Elizabeth WYNN    
18 13/06/1760 Edward PHENIX   Aldford Anne WEAVER    
19 12/04/1763 Robert ALDERSEY     Martha CAPPUR    
20 22/07/1763 Peter CAPPUR     Catherine LEWIS    
21 04/08/1763 William EDWARDS     Susannah FORMSTONE    
22 29/10/1763 Peter MOORES     Alice EVANS    
23 02/01/1764 John BROMHALL     Mary BENNION    
24 12/02/1764 Richard CLARK     Elizabeth PEMBERTON    
08/10/1765 Joseph DUTTON     Ann WINDSOR    
08/01/1766 George JACKSON     Mary WRIGHT    
17/06/1766 Joseph WOODYER     Ann JOHNSON    
21/09/1767 William DUTTON     Sarah EACHUS    
18/10/1767 Peter CAPPUR     Margaret ALDERSEY    
18/11/1767 William JONES     Elizabeth POVEY    
29/11/1767 John DOD     Anne SHEEN    
30/04/1768 John EDGE     Mary EVANS    
19/05/1768 William DAVIES     Hannah RUSCOE    
26/09/1768 Charles CROW     Catherine WEBB    
02/10/1768 John WEAVER     Sarah GOULBOURN    
29/12/1768 William WOODS     Margaret BENNION    
01/01/1769 John CANDLEND     Martha WRIGHT    
17/01/1769 John ROBERTS     Anne HIXSON    
18/09/1769 Peter CAPPUR     Mary THOMAS    
25/12/1769 John BEBBINGTON     Mary ALDERSEY    
30/12/1769 Thomas FORMSTONE     Mary DOD    
31/12/1770 James LIVERSAGE   Bunbury Ann POWELL    
11/11/1771 Joseph CAPPUR     Ann SALZAY    
28/11/1771 John STOKES   Malpas Mary RUSCOE    
20/01/1772 Edward DAINS     Martha WORMLEY    
17/01/1773 William PINNINGTON     Alice BARLOW    
30/01/1773 Randle BRADBURY     Elizabeth BENNION    
03/08/1783 Thomas LEWIS     Elizabeth JACKSON   Farndon
04/01/1784 Daniel ING   Bruera Mary EDWARDS    
18/06/1794 Thomas HARRISON     Elizabeth LIGHTFOOT    
29/06/1794 Samuel SHELLORN     Ann ADAMS    
27/12/1794 John RATHBORNE     Jane DEANE    
23/08/1795 Robert RATHBOURNE     Elizabeth KINNERTON    
24/11/1795 John LIGHTFOOT     Mary EDWARDS    
02/01/1797 Edward MADDOC   Tilston Ann PERRY    
11/08/1805 Joseph TAYLOR     Jane WILLIAMS    
27/09/1809 William COLLEY   Bruera Martha MEREDITH    
18/06/1811 Richard RUSCOE     Hannah JOHNSON    
07/07/1811 William EDWARDS   Ruabon, Denbighshire Martha ROWLANDS    
22/07/1811 Thomas PRICE     Mary CREW    
29/12/1812 Richard HULSE     Elizabeth JONES    
1 14/07/1813 John Maddock CHAPMAN Single Liverpool, Lancashire Jane ADAMS Single  
2 27/06/1815 Thomas HOUGHLAND Widower   Ellen WARBURTON    
3 27/12/1815 Thomas FORRESTER     Jane TAYLOR   Farndon
4 30/10/1816 Samuel DUTTON   Bunbury Elizabeth LINDOP    
5 26/12/1816 William FORRESTER Single   Catharine DOD Single  
6 07/01/1819 Richard LIGHTFOOT   Christleton Hannah MOORE Single  
7 14/10/1819 Thomas HOUGHLAND     Hannah PRICE    
1 08/12/1821 Joseph CHESWORTH   Malpas Mary TAYLOR    
2 09/12/1822 Joseph POVER Single   Elizabeth EDGE Single  
3 30/12/1822 Joseph WOODFINE Single   Jane POWELL Single Farndon
4 10/02/1823 William ALLMAN Single   Mary POWELL Single  
5 29/12/1823 Joseph PRITCHARD Single   Martha HOUGHLAND Single Neston
6 13/12/1824 John LOWE Single   Elizabeth LIGHTFOOT Single  
7 27/12/1824 William FORRESTER Widower   Ann HEWIT Single  
8 05/09/1825 Uriah PROBIN   Malpas Martha ALLMAN    
9 23/05/1826 William EDGE   Malpas Elizabeth HEWITT    
10 25/12/1826 Philip DUCKISS     Margaret MOORE    
11 01/10/1827 John STOKEN Single   Elizabeth DODD Single  
12 14/01/1828 George RHODEN Single Christleton Mary HOUGHLAND    
13 02/12/1828 John FODEN Single Tattenhall Margaret LIGHTFOOT Single  
14 27/10/1829 Thomas BAKER Single   Margaret HOUGH Single  
15 09/11/1829 George ALLMAN Single   Hannah EDGE Single  
16 30/12/1830 Richard POVEY Single   Jane JACKSON Single Farndon
17 28/05/1832 George ROBERTS Single   Margaret JONES Single  
18 06/06/1832 Paul MILLER   Farndon Elizabeth DUTTON    
19 03/09/1835 Thomas JOHNSON Single   Ann HOUGHLAND Single  
20 11/05/1836 Edward BLAKE Single   Anna DUTTON    
21 17/11/1836 Thomas PRICE Single   Mary WALLEY Single  
22 02/02/1837 Henry BARNES Single Farndon Hannah DUTTON Single  
23 25/05/1837 James HIGGINS   Birkenhead Emma LIGHTFOOT Single  
24 15/06/1837 Thomas DOWNES   Marchweil, Denbighshire Hannah FORMSTONE    

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