England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of St Andrew, Plymouth lies in the extreme southwest of Devon forming part of the county's English Channel coastline and being only a handful of miles from the River Tamar which forms the boundary with neighbouring Cornwall. Plymouth is located between the A38 road and the sea on one of the finest natural harbours in the country. Plymouth is some 44 miles southwest of Exeter and 215 miles from London and, as of 1928, became granted city status. Plymouth has a long and distinguished history as the major naval port of the nation. Plymouth, at the time of the conquest, did not exist as an entity being merely the manor of Sutton, granted a market by Henry III but remained small and insignificant until in 1439 the then town was incorporated as Plymouth. It was in Tudor times and following the Spanish Armada that Plymouth's importance as a naval base grew to prominence and it remains to this day a centre of naval activity. Besides the port status Plymouth was also a major market town and commercial port with a large fishing fleet as well as coastal and more distant traders. The hinterland is strongly dependent upon dairy farming and the processing of these products was also a prominent local business. Within the wider city St Andrew's parish, along with its neighbour Charles, covers a relatively small area, once the medieval heart of the city the bombing of World War 2 left a destroyed landscape which has been almost totally replaced by a modern concrete and glass city centre, only the Barbican area survives to tell what ealry Plymouth must have been like. Modern developments including a fast railway service to the capital and beyond make Plymouth a growing city even today and its urban sprawl now spreads from Saltash in the west to the eastern edge of Plympton in the east a distance of almost 8 miles. As a coastal settlement sitting between the twin rivers of Tamar and Plym most drainage runs sub-surface to either of these rivers and to the English Channel. The lowest parts of Plymouth are obviously at sea level whilst the northern suburbs rise to around 80 metres above the sea, St Andrew's church sits at around 10 metres. St Andrew's parish covers a tiny area of the city centre, little more than a few blocks yet into that area would once have been crammed around 23,500 parishioners, a dense stew of humanity. In Domesday time Plymouth, recorded a tiny Sutton was a holding of King William and could only offer 5 ploughs and some meadows & pastures. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
25th March 1754 - 1st June 1760 |
Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference -
358/18 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register
with 4 entries per page |
Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood
of misreads |
None |
2 | 2nd June 1760 - 2nd December 1763 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/19 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 3rd December 1763 - 7th February 1773 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/20 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 9th February 1773 - 18th June 1781 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/21 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 22nd June 1781 - 17th April 1787 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/22 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 29th April 1787 - 29th December 1794 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/23 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
7 | 5th January 1795 - 29th June 1798 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/24 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
8 | 1st July 1798 - 17th August 1801 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/25 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
9 | 17th August 1801 - 1st July 1804 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/26 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
10 | 3rd July 1804 - 12th May 1807 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/27 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
11 | 14th May 1807 - 31st January 1810 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/28 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
12 | 2nd February 1810 - 3rd August 1812 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/29 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
13 | 4th August 1812 - 31st December 1812 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/30 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
14 | 1st January 1813 - 31st August 1815 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/31 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
15 | 3rd September 1815 - 17th August 1818 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/32 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
16 | 17th August 1818 - 9th April 1822 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/33 | Non-standard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is non-standard by not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
17 | 10th April 1822 - 9th June 1830 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/34a | Non-standard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is non-standard by not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None NB this register is bundled together with its successor into a single archival deposit |
18 | 9th June 1830 - 15th November 1831 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/34b | Non-standard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is non-standard by not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None NB this register is bundled together with its predecessor into a single archival deposit |
19 | 15th November 1831 - 18th July 1836 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/35 | Non-standard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is non-standard by not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Poor handwriting by one member of the clerical team may lead to a few misreads |
20 | 20th July 1836 - 27th June 1837 | Plymouth & West Devon Record Office - Reference - 358/36 | Non-standard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is non-standard 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 |
Stoke
Damerel St Andrew
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Plymouth
Charles
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Plymouth
Charles
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Stoke
Damerel St Andrew
Stonehouse St George |
Plymouth
Charles
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Yearly date links: 1754
1755 1756 1757
1758 1759 1760
1761 1762 1763
1764 1765
1766 1767
1768 1769
1770
1771 1772
1773 1774
1775 1776
1777 1778
1779 1780
1781 1782
1783 1784
1785 1786
1787 1788
1789 1790
1791 1792
1793 1794
1795 1796
1797 1798
1799 1800
1801 1802
1803 1804
1805 1806
1807 1808
1809 1810
1811 1812
1813 1814
1815 1816
1817 1818
1819 1820
1821 1822
1823 1824
1825 1826
1827 1828
1829 1830
1831 1832
1833 1834
1835 1836
1837
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