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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Satterleigh St Peter

 

The Parish

The parish of Satterleigh lies in the northern portion of central Devon roughly 4 miles southwest of the market town of South Molton. Satterleigh sits a half mile west of the B3226 road which links South Molton with the A377 (Barnstaple to Crediton) road. Satterleigh is a tiny place, a tiny hamlet in a tiny parish with just a farmstead gathered around the church and all sitting on a roughly made track on a hilltop west of the River Mole. Like most Devon parishes Satterleigh is a pastoral farming parish with dairy cattle a speciality. In addition a few cider trees support the nearby cider mill at Clapworthy. The Mole drains the parish southwards before meeting the Taw and turning back northwestwards to pass through Barnstaple to the Irish Sea through the combined Taw/Torridge Estuary. Satterleigh is sited at around 140 metres above the sea with land rising still higher northwest to top 173 metres at appropriately named Hightown. At just 515 acres Satterleigh was probably the smallest rural parish in its county, an acreage that supported merely around 50 parishioners. Even in Domesday times Satterleigh was a small place, it was retained by a Saxon survivor, a bowman named Godebold, and offered merely 2 ploughs backed by meadows, pasture & woodland.


The Church

St Peter's church is the southernmost building in the tiny hamlet approached through a busy farming complex along a roughly made track from the north, beyond the church it becomes merely a footpath headed down to the B3226. A tiny church as befits a tiny parish and consisting merely of nave and chancel, no aisles, topped off at the western end by a weatherboarded bellcote. All is 15th century from the late Perpendicular period albeit there are no windows in the nave's northern wall to give away dating details in their tracery. The weatherboarded bellcote is the church's stand-out feature and again lacks decorative detailing. The track through the farmstead is a right-of-way and vehicles can follow to the churchyard, parking should avoid impeding farming activities. The views from the south traditionally favoured are taken by the church's position close to the churchyard's southern boundary but all other aspects are available.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
30th June 1755 - 31st March 1812
North Devon Record Office - Reference - 1709A/PR/1/4
Plain, ruled & margined book containing combined Banns & Marriages
Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads
None
2 12th April 1813 - 8th October 1835 North Devon Record Office - Reference - 1709A/PR/1/5 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads None


Warkleigh St John the Evangelist
Warkleigh St John the Evangelist
Chittlehampton St Hieritha
Chittlehampton St Hieritha
Warkleigh St John the Evangelist
Kings Nympton St James
Warkleigh St John the Evangelist
Warkleigh St John the Evangelist
Kings Nympton St James
Kings Nympton St James

Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
30/06/1755 Robert MAYNE
Barnstaple Grace COLLINS Single
17/01/1757 Horatio HOLE
Great Torrington Frances BELLEW Single
16/09/1759 George ROWE

Elizabeth HOBBS Widow
23/04/1764 John WEBBER
Kings Nympton Ann SCOTT Single
11/11/1765 Samuel DUNN

Catherine COLLINS Single
31/03/1766 George BLAKE

Frances MITCHELS Single
26/05/1768 James PODGER

Grace GODBEAR Widow
07/08/1771 John WEBBER

Grace MAYNE Widow
19/10/1772 Charles LUXTON

Anne FOSS Single
21/05/1775 Henry MILDON
Chittlehampton Amy Moulford FOSS Single
08/08/1776 Prockter THOMAS
Wellington, Somerset Susanna Elizabeth MELHUISH Single
09/03/1778 Philip HUNT

Elizabeth FROST Single
15/12/1779 Philip PARKIN
Chittlehampton Sarah ROWE Single
16/04/1780 John COTHAY
Chittlehampton Grace MAYNE Single
21/04/1781 William LAKE
Warkleigh Elizabeth MAYNE Single
04/08/1783 Thomas LEE

Elizabeth WHITE Single
01/09/1783 Charles SNOW

Grace COPP Single
22/02/1786 William PETERS
Filleigh Sarah WHITE Single
26/08/1787 Samuel LAKE
Chittlehampton Ann ROW

28/02/1791 William SKINNER
Warkleigh Olive MAYNE

03/12/1797 John BOWDEN
Warkleigh Anne WEBBER Single
17/12/1798 Michael LOVELL

Anne SHAPLAND

30/03/1800 William BAKER
Warkleigh Elizabeth BLAKE

06/04/1800 John WEBBER

Grace SAUNDERS Single Chittlehampton
13/09/1801 George NOTT
George Nympton Anne BAKER
Kings Nympton
31/03/1805 John BEER

Elizabeth EVANS

30/01/1806 John PARSLEY

Catherine COLE

05/10/1806 James SOMERS
Warkleigh Jane BAKER

11/05/1807 Richard SHADDOCK
Warkleigh Joanna KINGSLAND

18/10/1807 John SMITH

Elizabeth RUMBELOW

12/04/1809 Matthew HODGE
South Molton Ann DANN

20/08/1809 John ASHELFORD
South Molton Joan SHADDICK
Warkleigh
24/04/1810 Anthony BEER

Mary STADDON

31/03/1812 William WESTACOTT

Elizabeth SELLY

1 12/04/1813 William HANDFORD
Chittlehampton Mary LEWIS

2 04/04/1818 John WEY
Warkleigh Eleanor SKINNER Single
3 23/01/1821 Nicholas GOMER

Mary SQUIRE Single
4 26/03/1826 Edward JURY

Sarah SAUNDERS Single
5 18/10/1829 William FORD

Anne WEY

6 03/07/1831 William BAKER

Fanny WOOLLACOTT

7 02/02/1834 Walter BALMOND

Anne ASHELFORD

8 08/10/1835 William SQUIRE

Mary WEBBER Single

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