England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Great Holland is located in northeastern Essex, indeed it forms part of Essex's North Sea coast. Great Holland is located about 3 miles northeast of the seaside resort of Clacton on Sea. Great Holland sits astride the B1032 road which heads northeastwards from Clacton on Sea to Kirby le Soken. Great Holland is a large compact village mainly built about the crossroads of the B1032 with a pair of minor lanes heading east and west respectively. This is an extremely low-lying area, largely reclaimed from the sea or defended from encroachments by raised sea banks. At the time of this transcript this would have been an area dominated by cattle grazing on the salt marshes, nowadays a little arable occurs on slightly higher ground. Great Holland sits on higher ground, a former peninsular, at about 20 metres above sea level, but land falls to the west almost to sea level itself. The drainage heads southwards through the Holland Brook where sluices guide it into the North Sea at Holland Haven, Today much of the coastal area of the parish is nature reserve or country park. The parish is a fairly typical size for Essex and just over 2,000 acres and it supported almost 500 parishioners. In Domesday times Great Holland was enumerated with its smaller neighbour Little Holland and supported 14 ploughs plus pastures, meadows and woodland; the land was split between two landholders Walter of Douai and Count Eustace of Boulogne obviously French associates of the Conqueror. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 10th May 1754 - 2nd November 1812 | Essex Record Office - Reference - D/P396/1/3 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 5th April 1813 - 18th June 1837 | Essex Record Office - Reference - D/P396/1/5 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Thorpe
le Soken St Michael
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Kirby
le Soken St Michael
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Kirby
le Soken St Michael
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Little
Clacton St James the Great
Great Clacton St John the Baptist |
Frinton
St Mary the Virgin
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Little
Holland St Bartholomew
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