England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Great Tey lies in the eastern central portion of Essex about 6 miles west of the city of Colchester and 4 miles northeast of the market town of Coggeshall. The village spreads along a wide north-south running lane which heads from Bures, Suffolk towards the A120 which it meets between Marks Tey and Coggeshall. For Essex this is comparatively high land rising to around 60 metres above sea level from the valley of the River Colne which flows to the north of the parish and the Roman River which runs to the south. The area is largely arable farmland with cereals, beet and oil seed dominating the landscape, the latter turns the area bright yellow with flowering in the spring. The parish covers a substantial area for a lowland parish, almost 2,500 acres and supported around 700 parishioners. In Domesday times Great Tey was combined with Little & Marks Teys as the lands of Geoffrey de Mandeville where the whole supported 8 ploughs, the entry declares a much broader agricultural base than present day with much references to animals and also a substantial bee honey business. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 6th October 1754 - 1st January 1772 | Essex Record Office - Reference - D/P37/1/7 | Plain, ruled & bordered book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Poor handwriting coupled with a lack of segregation of entries leads to a possibility of both misreads and omissions |
2 | 30th October 1772 - 27th October 1812 | Essex Record Office - Reference - D/P37/1/8 | 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 | None |
3 | 16th March 1813 - 10th April 1837 | Essex Record Office - Reference - D/P37/1/12 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Earls
Colne St Andrew
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Earls Colne
St Andrew
Chappel St Barnabas |
Chappel
St Barnabas
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Feering All
Saints
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Aldham St Margaret |
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Feering
All Saints
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Feering All
Saints
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Little
Tey St James the Less
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