England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Falmouth lies in southern Cornwall forming a stretch of the county's coastline with the English Channel. Falmouth is located roughly 8 miles south of the county town of Truro on the banks of Carrick Roads one of the county's finest deep water harbours. Falmouth sits at the southern end of the A39 road which connects it with Truro and the national road network. For such an important port Falmouth came late to the scene, as stated below Falmouth is not recorded in Domesday Book and maps as late as the mid-16th century show only a few scattered huts for fisherman at the site. In the 1530s, Tudor times, the strategic value of Carrick Roads was finally realised and the twin defensive forts at Pendennis & St Mawes were constructed to defend the harbour. These fortifications led to the founding of modern Falmouth as a 17th century "new town" with the royal charter granted in 1661. Falmouth's population grew from virtually nothing in the early 17th century to over 2,000 by the start of the 18th, rising to almost 5,000 by the time of this transcript. Falmouth's port also grew substantially supporting merchant trade and pilchard fishing before emerging as one of the navy's most important bases and a centre for ship-building in later times. The arrival of a railway line in 1863 sparked tremendous expansion albeit Falmouth's location trapped between the sea and the steep ground inland created a linear town along the shoreline rising in terraced steps inland. Today Falmouth is both a port, a naval base and also a tourist destination with both Swanpool and Gyllyngvase beaches popular with tourists. The town has grown, absorbing nearby Penryn to become the third largest in Cornwall. As a coastal settlement most drainage is short and swift to the nearby sea. Falmouth sits at between sea level and 70 metres above the same, land rises inland to over 100 metres within a mile or two. Falmouth parish was carved from the rural parish of Budock and covers barely 700 acres but within that acreage a population of almost 5,000 would have resided by the end of this transcript period. As already mentioned Falmouth is not recorded in Domesday Book. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
10th May 1754 - 20th January 1769 |
Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P63/1/12 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with
this register which may have resulted in many misreads |
This register is very much a "curate's egg" some entries
perfectly legible and others subject to fading and poor
handwriting, at times verging upon the unreadable. Reference to
contemporary transcripts prepared from the original register were
consulted to mitigate the error rate but this section still
carries something of a "heath warning" there will be misreads and
possibly quite a few |
2 | 26th January 1769 - 31st March 1782 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P63/1/13 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | This register is very much a "curate's egg" some entries perfectly legible and others subject to fading and poor handwriting, at times verging upon the unreadable. Reference to contemporary transcripts prepared from the original register were consulted to mitigate the error rate but this section still carries something of a "heath warning" there will be misreads and possibly quite a few |
3 | 31st March 1803 - 7th August 1803 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P63/1/14 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 8th August 1803 - 27th December 1812 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P63/1/15 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 4th January 1813 - 29th April 1828 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P63/1/16 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 11th May 1828 - 25th June 1837 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P63/1/17 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Budock
St Budock
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St Budock
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St Budock
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