Clyst St George

England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Clyst St George

The Parish

The parish of Clyst St George lies in southern Devon roughly 5 miles southeast of the city of Exeter. Clyst St George sits on the A376 road which links Exeter with Exmouth. Most properties lie slightly east of the main road with the notional centre clustered around the junction with the B3179 headed for Woodbury. The village name comes from a combination of its proximity to the River Clyst which flows just to the west and the dedication of its church. The soils are light and productive in this portion of Devon east of the Exe and a mixed farming regime would have been in place with roughly equal proportions of arable and pasture. Clyst St George sits almost at the end of the Clyst's course as within a mile in emerges into the combined estuary with the Exe to reach the nearby English Channel. Clyst St George is sited at around 20 metres above the sea in its valley setting, away from the Clyst land rises steadily eastwards reaching 176 metres just east of Woodbury Castle. Covering just 1,000 acres Clyst St George was towards the smaller end of the scale for Devon parishes, that acreage would have supported a population of close to 350 parishioners. In Domesday times Clyst St George was held by Ralph de Pomeroy and was an equally small arable manor offering just 6 ploughs and a small meadow.

The Church

St George's church sits on the eastern edge of the village almost facing open fields. Sadly this rural location did not spare Sr George on the night of 31st August 1940 when German incendiary bombing was highly intense throughout the area and partially targeted at the nearby air base, now Exeter airport. Sadly Clyst St George was badly hit by wayward bombs resulting in St George's church being reduced to ruin. Once peace was restored the church rose again phoenix-like to its present arrangement, an incendiary was displayed in a glass cabinet in the porch to remind of what had happened. The lane on which it sits on the northwestern side is of ample width for safe parking outside the attractive lychgate of 1867 which survived that terrible night. The churchyard is compact and has quite a few close trees and adjacent properties making a limited set of angles available for the photographer.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	31st December 1754 - 22nd May 1811	Devon Heritage Centre - Reference - 3147A/PR/1/5	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	Despite some water damage resulting in wavy pages all entries are readable
2	20th October 1813 - 7th January 1837	Devon Heritage Centre - Reference - 3147A/PR/1/6	Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register	Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads	None

Topsham St Margaret	Clyst St Mary	Clyst St Mary
Topsham St Margaret		Woodbury St Swithen
Topsham St Margaret	Woodbury St Swithen	Woodbury St Swithen

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
1	31/12/1754	Richard	GEEVE		Pinhoe	Mary	RUTTER
2	05/05/1755	Joseph	GOLSWORTHY			Mary	WHITE
3	18/02/1756	Francis	COXE		Clyst St Mary	Joan	DERBY
4	05/09/1756	Greenfield	WESTCOT	Widower		Joanna	EVANS	Single	Cathedral, Exeter
5	21/11/1756	William	TILL			Jone	MEATYARD
6	21/03/1757	John	PRIDHAM			Mary	GOLSWORTHY
7	06/06/1757	William	BRANSCOMB			Elizabeth	CHAPPLE	Widow
8	14/05/1758	George	BEALY			Elizabeth	BOWRING
9	15/05/1758	Edward	RICHARDS		Sowton	Elizabeth	HILMAN
10	07/04/1760	Joseph	BURRIDGE			Eleanor	HAVELL
11	09/10/1760	Nathaniel	HARDING			Mary	BOWDITCH
12	30/10/1760	John	DEALL			Betty	RICHARDS
13	11/11/1760	Henry	TOZER			Dinah	BOWRING
14	17/04/1761	William	SUXPITCH			Ann	GOLSWORTHY
15	28/10/1761	John	COPLESTONE		Woodbury	Jane	SAUNDERS
16	07/06/1762	Richard	WESTCOT			Hannah	SUXPITCH
17	13/02/1763	Jonathan	TOBEY		Aylesbeare	Mary	GOLSWORTHY
18	14/03/1763	Thomas	GOLSWORTHY			Mary	WESTCOT
19	31/07/1763	John	NEWBERRY			Martha	ADAMS
20	25/05/1764	William	GIBBS			Catherine	WARE
21	29/07/1764	William	PINN			Mary	BULLID
22	09/04/1765	John	SMITH			Agnes	CLAPP
23	16/06/1765	Jacob	LEMEN			Jone	HIPPER
24	25/11/1765	William	DEMBY			Mary	TURNER
25	09/11/1766	George	TOLMAN			Mary	PEARSE
26	16/11/1766	John	TUCKER			Jane	HELLYER
27	01/02/1767	Roger	MOORE			Elizabeth	HIPPER
28	17/07/1767	William	CROSS			Ann	PAYNE
29	27/08/1767	John	SHEPHERD			Prudence	WALDRON
30	04/05/1768	John	GOLSWORTHY			Elizabeth	SKINNER
31	10/09/1769	Richard	CHANNING			Martha	MOORE
32	06/11/1769	James	QUANT			Hannah	DENBY
33	05/12/1770	Joseph	RADFORD			Joanna	WESTCOTT
34	02/03/1772	John	GOLLOP			Ann	LEWARD
35	04/05/1772	John	BRYANT			Joan	CAWSEY
36	04/05/1772	John	TAYLOR		Sowton	Mary	SKINNER
37	19/10/1773	John	BAKER			Elizabeth	GOLSWORTHY
38	11/09/1775	Germayne	VEYSEY			Joanna	WEBBER
39	10/12/1775	William	OSMENT			Betty	JOHNSLIN
40	08/04/1776	John	BAKER			Elizabeth	TOTTEN
41	18/05/1777	John	TATERSHALL		Exbourne	Agnes	BLACKFORD
42	25/08/1777	William	DENBY			Mary	NUTT
43	13/10/1777	John	QUENTANCE			Anne	VENICOMBE
44	01/04/1778	James	STONE			Salome	NEWBERY		Clyst St Mary
45	25/05/1779	John	COX			Ann	DALLY		Harpford
46	01/03/1780	William	PERREM			Mary	PRATT		Broadclyst
47	20/07/1780	Thomas	GLASS	Widower		Mary	SHELSON	Single	Topsham
48	25/09/1780	William	INGLAND			Mary	NEWBERY
49	14/12/1780	John	PRIDHAM			Joanna	GOODING		Woodbury
50	19/11/1781	Richard	ROUS			Charlotte	ISAAC		Exeter
51	06/12/1781	John	TREE		Heavitree	Elizabeth	WESTCOTT
52	13/01/1782	Thomas	NORMAN			Patience	VENN
53	27/11/1782	Thomas	GOLDSWORTHY			Elizabeth	HALL
54	02/03/1783	William	VEYSEY			Grace	SPILLER
55	07/03/1785	William	TREE			Elizabeth	GRANGER
56	25/07/1785	John	CHANNING		Colaton Raleigh	Ann	COLLINS
57	13/09/1786	John	POTTER			Ann	SHEPPERD
58	15/01/1787	William	REED			Mary	PARSONS
59	19/07/1787	George	RICHARDS		Farringdon	Ann	TAYLOR
60	17/10/1787	John	GOLDSWORTHY			Sarah	WARREN
61	08/03/1788	James	WOODMAN			Mary	TRISLADE		Thorverton
62	16/08/1788	Thomas	WALTER			Anna Maria	TAYLOR
63	25/12/1788	Robert	MULLING			Mary	TOLMAN
64	25/01/1789	John	PRIDHAM		Topsham	Catherine	DOWNMAN
65	02/02/1789	James	HOOPER		Harpford	Joanna	TREE
66	23/02/1789	James	PERRIAM			Joan	LEAMAN
67	23/02/1789	William	GIBBS			Elizabeth	EASTERLING
68	15/03/1789	Thomas	SAREL		Ottery St Mary	Julianna	GOLDSWORTHY
69	09/08/1789	William	GIBBS			Sarah	MANLEY
70	03/01/1790	Thomas	GOLDSWORTHY			Mary	WESTCOTT
71	26/02/1790	Philip	HURLEY		Littleham By Exmouth	Hannah	PRIDHAM
72	20/10/1790	John	NORTON		Woodbury	Mary	BAMSEY
73	26/04/1791	William	COLLINS		Bere Ferres	Elizabeth	PYLE
74	28/03/1792	John	HATHERLY		Aylesbeare	Elizabeth	PERRIAM
75	10/03/1793	John	PERRY			Sarah	POLLARD
76	22/07/1793	Robert	HALFYARD			Elizabeth	AUTHER
77	07/03/1795	William	SKINNER		Topsham	Anne	OSMENT
78	29/12/1795	John	GOLDSWORTHY		Sowton	Mary	HAYWARD
79	23/04/1796	Ezekiel	WEBBER			Sarah	GIBBS
80	21/09/1797	Joseph	WARREN			Anne	PRIDHAM
81	25/12/1797	William	BUCKLAND			Elizabeth	TROUT
82	03/02/1799	Roger	TROUT			Grace	BRAY
83	17/08/1799	Robert	WARREN			Esther	SUMPTION		Sowton
84	13/04/1801	Henry	GLANVILL		Woodbury	Mary Lee	WARREN
85	25/04/1802	John	SKINNER			Elizabeth	VOYSEY
86	15/12/1802	Thomas	GOLDSWORTHY			Jane	SANDERS		Woodbury
87	26/12/1802	William	PYLE			Hannah	RUTTER
88	17/04/1803	Henry	GRINSLADE			Grace	VOYSEY
89	26/03/1805	William Rous	ELLICOMBE		Alphington	Esther Harriet	ISAAC
90	14/01/1806	John	WESTCOTT			Sally	HILL		St Thomas, Exeter
91	17/06/1806	Thomas	ADAMS			Emelia	BLACKMORE		Clyst Honiton
92	14/07/1807	John	VOYSEY			Mary	WHITE
93	02/11/1807	George	LANGDON			Jemima	RUTTER
94	31/10/1808	Thomas	TREBY			Grace	FISH
95	14/02/1809	William	WEST			Ann	GIBBS
96	25/07/1809	William	VOYSEY			Mary	WESTCOTT
97	27/09/1809	William	COWD	Widower	Lympstone	Ann	GOLSWORTHY	Single
98	27/11/1809	Samuel	SANDERS			Elizabeth	RUSSELL		Woodbury
99	13/04/1810	William	STEER	Single	Heavitree	Charlotte	RUTTER
100	19/06/1810	Thomas	PENGELLY		Stoke Damerel	Jane	GOLSWORTHY
101	26/02/1811	John	SERCOMB		Holcombe Burnell	Ann	COX
102	22/05/1811	Edward	BARTLETT		Farringdon	Anne	MARTYN		Clyst St Mary
1	10/10/1813	Thomas	NORMAN		Clyst St Mary	Sarah	EAST
2	28/10/1813	William	PHILLIPS		Hay, Breconshire	Sarah	PAYNE
3	10/11/1813	Robert	BAKER			Mary	BRYANT
4	02/02/1814	William	TAVERNER			Mary	BISHOP
5	28/04/1814	John	PAYNE			Elizabeth	LANE
6	28/09/1814	William	LAKE			Mary	TOTHILL
7	23/10/1814	John	CLOGG	Widower	Topsham	Mary	NORMAN	Single
8	03/11/1814	William	CONAWAY	Single	Exminster	Elizabeth	KING	Single
9	17/05/1815	John	MITCHELL			Anna Maria	NORMAN		East Budleigh
10	17/01/1816	George	SKINNER			Elizabeth	MARTIN
11	16/07/1816	Isaac	EDWARDS			Susanna	RUTTER
12	04/09/1817	John	POTTER			Mary	JARREN
13	22/12/1817	Robert	MAUNDER			Maria	TUCKER
14	12/02/1818	Francis Dawton	TWIGGS		St Lawrence, Exeter	Agnes	BATE
15	22/06/1818	James	LORAM			Mary	AYEAR
16	27/10/1818	John	MOORE			Mary	ROUGHTLY
17	04/10/1819	William	GIBBS			Sarah	CHRISTMAS
18	23/05/1820	Robert	GOODING			Sally	MARTIN
19	25/09/1820	James	RUTTER			Mary	SALTER
20	25/09/1820	Philip	PYLE			Mary	BARGOIN
21	25/03/1822	William	COLDRIDGE		Dunchideock	Jane	ELLIOTT
22	10/12/1822	James	SALTER			Jane	WESTCOTT
23	10/06/1823	Daniel	STONE			Sarah	GIBBS	Widow
24	14/07/1823	Philip	PILE		Topsham	Sally	HILL
25	02/03/1824	William	DADDS			Anne	SALTER
26	13/06/1824	James	BELL			Sarah	SALTER
27	15/02/1825	George	BAKER			Mary	PALMER
28	20/06/1826	John Martyn	COLLYNS		St Sidwell, Exeter	Sophia	PATCH	Single
29	07/08/1826	William	CORNISH			Mary Ann	BUCK
30	10/12/1826	John	BUCKLAND			Sarah	TREE
31	10/12/1827	John	CORNISH			Elizabeth Mary	TROUT
32	21/11/1830	James	VANSTONE	Single		Mary	TRIGGS	Single
33	03/02/1831	William	STOOKE			Charlotte	DRAKE
34	21/02/1832	John Gardener	GOODRIDGE	Single	Chudleigh	Frances	REED	Single
35	11/11/1832	Henry	PARR			Elizabeth	PYLE
36	30/03/1834	Richard	RUSSELL			Mary Anne	GREENSLADE	Single
37	22/02/1835	Joseph	BACK	Single		Mary	VOYSEY	Single
38	26/02/1835	William	WRANCH		Woodbury	Elizabeth	SALTER
39	27/08/1835	John	PYLE			Anne	TROUT
40	27/09/1835	Thomas	GOODRIDGE		Chudleigh	Charlotte	REED	Single
41	07/10/1835	William	MAUNDER			Harriet	TAMLYN
42	14/10/1835	John	POTTER	Single		Jemima	LANGDON	Single
43	22/11/1836	Richard	WHITTLE	Single	Barnstaple	Julia Anna	PITTS
44	30/11/1836	George Waldron	PEARCE	Single	Topsham	Ellen Gaynor	FINCH	Single
45	07/01/1837	George	ENDICOTT	Single		Ann	SLADE	Widow

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