England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Madron lies in the extreme west of Cornwall forming a large part of the Penwith peninsula and also a section of Cornwall's English Channel coast. Whilst Madron, itself, is a mid-sized village the parish incorporates Penzance making for a sizable population. Penzance is located about 25 miles southwest of the county town of Truro. Madron village sits inland just over 2 miles from the port of Penzance. Penzance sits on the A30 road which runs from London to Land's End whilst Madron sits a mile north of the latter's bypass around Penzance. Whilst Cornwall, and Penwith in particular, is famous for tin production there appears to have been little mineral activity within this parish, the port of penzance providing most employment in transportation of goods as well as the usual fishing and shell-fishing activities. Inland employment was in pastoral farming as well as quarrying the local stone. Apart from its port functions Penzance would also have been the market town for western Cornwall. Modern developments reached this extreme end of Cornwall, the London to Penzance rail line being an essential lifeline to upcountry As a coastal community many small streams flow down the short distance to the nearby English Channel. Penzance is sited at sea level, rising to around 40 metres in the higher, modern suburbs, Madron village is sited at around 120 metres in a rising landscape where local heights top out at 224 metres on nearby Boswens Common. Parishes in this area of Cornwall tend to be quite extensive, Madron parish covering almost 6,000 was typical, it would have supported a population of around 11,000 parishioners, mostly within the town of Penzance. Madron is not mentioned in Domesday Book which has scant coverage of this area.. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 15th April 1754 - 26th December 1800 | Cornwall Archives - Reference - P133/1/13 | 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 | Fading towards the latter stages of this register may lead to one or two misreads |
2 | 1st January 1801 29th December 1812 | Cornwall Archives - Reference - P133/1/14 | 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 | Sporadic fading through this register may lead to a few misreads |
3 | 3rd January 1813 - 22nd December 1822 | Cornwall Archives - Reference - P133/1/17 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | Fading of this register is sufficient to create a challenging read and the likelihood of misreads is much higher as a result |
4 | 1st February 1823 - 31st December 1831 | Cornwall Archives - Reference - P133/1/18 | 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 | Sporadic fading through this register may lead to a few misreads |
5 | 1st January 1831 - 25th June 1837 | Cornwall Archives - Reference - P133/1/19 | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard by not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
St Just
in Penwith St Just
Morvah St Bridget & St Morwetha |
Morvah St
Bridget & St Morwetha
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Zennor
St Senara
Gulval St Gulval |
Sancreed St
Sancredus
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Gulval St Gulval
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Sancreed
St Sancredus
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Paul St Paul
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