England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Roxwell lies in western central Essex about 4 miles northwest of the town of Chelmsford. Roxwell is a large village which sits just south of the a1060 road which connects Chelmsford with Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire. Most of Roxwell's properties lie along an inverted "U" shaped run of lanes within the main village with a smaller secondary settlement at Boyton Cross on the A1060. At the time of this transcript Roxwell was a farming settlement with a mixed farming regime, Roxwell has two main brooks running through the parish and these would have added diversity in the form of pasture to the normal arable regime of this county. To diversify the economy Roxwell was also home to a pair of flour mills taking advantage of the rushing streams for power. Today Roxwell has expanded as a commuter village for nearby Chelmsford with new developments adding to the original village. The Roxwell Brook and the Newland Brook drain the parish eastwards into the nearby River Can, merging into the Chelmer and reaching the North Sea through the port of Maldon. Roxwell is sited at around 40 metres above the sea, land hereabouts is undramatic and local heights reach to almost 80 metres but in gentle terrain. Roxwell parish is one of the larger in extent within Essex, it covered a little under 4,800 acres, almost 3 times the size of a typical rural Essex parish, and would have supported just over 800 parishioners. Roxwell was recorded in Domesday Book under the manor of Newland, Newland Hall stands within the parish about a mile northwest across the Newland Brook, a holding of Count Eustace of Boulogne it was a small place offering just 4 ploughs and some small meadows. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
14th October 1754 - 14th May 1812 |
Essex Record Office - Reference - D/P288/1/3 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
None |
2 | 25th May 1813 - 29th November 1836 | Essex Record Office - Reference - D/P288/1/9 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Margaret
Roding St Margaret of Antioch
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Good
Easter St Andrew
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Good
Easter St Andrew
Chignall St James |
Chignall
St James
Writtle All Saints |
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Writtle
All Saints
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Writtle
All Saints
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