England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages
1754 - 1837
Isles of Scilly St Mary
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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of the Isles of Scilly is in reality a conglomeration of a number of small chapelries in the island archipelago with the main church being St Mary on the island of the same name. The Isles of Scilly sit west of southwestern Cornwall some 28 miles west of Land's End. The archipelago consists of 200 rocks and islands with St Mary, St Martin, Treso, Bryher & St Agnes as the main inhabited location, Hugh Town on St Mary being the notional capital. The islands have along history of human settlement dating back 4,000 years, its legacy of archaeological sites has one of the richest sets of historic & prehistoric remains within Britain. In more recent times the islands became a bulwark for the defence of the nation with a wealth of military fortifications constructed to support the permanent garrison. The islands economy, of course, is dominated by the sea, fishing was almost a second nature in the circumstances; but the islands position within the Gulf Stream and its consequentially mild and frost free climate made it an excellent location for early cropping of both fruit & vegetables and flowers & bulbs. The west country of England has 3 granitic intrusions, Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor and that forming the Isles of Scilly, these were left as a "drowned landscape" following sea-level rise at the end of the last glaciation, the tops of mountains remaining as the islands. As a coastal settlement there is no significant drainage, the sea is never far away. Hugh Town is sited at between sea level and 20 metres above, the highest point of the islands appears to be Telegraph Hill with a height of 51 metres. The parish acreage of the islands totalled close to 4,700 acres and within that acreage would have been around 2,600 parishioners, much enhanced by the members of the military garrisons. The Isles of Scilly are not mentioned in Domesday Book. |
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General Note 1 Some marriages took place in the outer island chapelries and were reported periodically to the mother church and entered into St Mary's registers in batches. It was felt best to have a single page for the whole set of islands rather than many pages some with few marriages |
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| General Note 2 Cornwall Record Office's cataloguing indicates there are a number of marriages recorded within the parallel composite registers in use prior to Rose style registers being adopted. It is assumed that these are duplications of those recorded in the "official" marriage registers |
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| 1 | 30th July 1755 - 30th November 1807 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P206/1/3 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 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 | Both fading and poor handwriting at times make this a challenging
read and raising the likelihood of a few misreads NB this register has a printing defect in that all pages from 1785 onwards have no pre-printed grid they simply being a plain ruled book |
| 2 | 6th July 1808 - 15th January 1819 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P206/1/6a | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 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 | Both fading and poor handwriting at times make this a challenging
read and raising the likelihood of a few misreads NB this register is bound together with its successor into a single archival deposit |
| 3 | 15th March 1819 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P206/1/6b | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None NB this register is bound together with its predecessor into a single archival deposit |
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