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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Great Washbourne St Mary

 

The Parish

The parish of Great Washbourne lies in northern Gloucestershire close to the border with neighbouring Worcestershire. Great Washbourne is a small and compact riverside village which sits roughly 5 miles east of the town of Tewkesbury and a mile east of the A46 road which connects Tewkesbury with the Worcestershire town of Evesham. A typical farming village of the Vale of Evesham, the heavy clay soils being unsuitable for arable farming much of the land was set to pasture, today arable has spread in with advent of modern machinery. Great Washbourne is drained westwards by a small tributary of the River Carrant which is soon joined, the latter continues westwards to meet the Severn at Tewkesbury and thence to the sea through the Bristol Channel. Great Washbourne is sited at around 40 metres above the sea and sits nestled between two outliers of the nearby Cotswold range, both Alderton & Oxenton Hills rise to a little over 200 metres and are quite a feature of the otherwise gentle landscape. Great Washbourne parish was one of the smallest within its county, covering barely 650 acres it supported just 100 parishioners. In Domesday times Great Washbourne was an equally rural place, held directly by King William it could muster just 5 ploughs.


The Church

St Mary's church sits on the northern side of the dead-end lane that forms Great Washbourne's main street. The church is small as befits its congregation but ancient dating back to the 12th century and the Norman Romanesque style. Pevsner grants the church an early 12th century origin, a date that places its construction not long after the conquest. Obviously it has been modified over the centuries, in the 13th century lancet windows of the Early English Gothic style were inserted into both nave & chancel southern walls and further windows of the Perpendicular style were added later. A dated inscription of 1642 shows the chancel was restored by one "James Cartwright" at that date and in the 19th century a vestry was also added. The major restoration of this church came in modern times in the 1960s. The lane leading to the village is narrow but the verge is widened at the western end of the site for a car to park. The churchyard is raised above road height and banked by a wall of Cotswold limestone, steps rise up to gates into a churchyard which has no significant obstacles to photography.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 26th December 1757 - 22nd August 1803 Gloucestershire Archives - Reference - P352/IN/1/2
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 28th November 1815 - 2nd May 1837 Gloucestershire Archives - Reference - P352/IN/1/3 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads None


Beckford St John the Baptist
Beckford St John the Baptist
Beckford St John the Baptist
Beckford St John the Baptist
Beckford St John the Baptist
Little Washbourne St Mary
Little Washbourne St Mary
Little Washbourne St Mary

Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
1 26/12/1757 Giles WEBB Beckford Mary MAYOLL Single
2 27/12/1757 Thomas MEERING Widower Beckford Elizabeth HEMMING Widow
3 27/03/1758 Joseph DYER Hasfield Elizabeth ROBERTS
4 05/07/1758 William ROGER Mary BARROW Widow
5 27/09/1760 Timothy THORY Overbury, Worcestershire Ann HEMMING Single
6 05/07/1762 Edward DRINKWATER Cropthorne, Worcestershire Elizabeth HEMMING
7 06/06/1763 John COLE Alderton Sarah HATCH
8 19/02/1767 John ROBERTS Winchcombe Molly ROBERTS
9 14/05/1767 Francis HATCH Ashton Under Hill Elizabeth DOBBIN
10 07/05/1770 William WALSH Ann SHORY
11 08/10/1770 John SHILLAM Susanna TORRAN
12 12/01/1771 John PERT Overbury, Worcestershire Ann MERRYMAN
13 27/06/1771 William HATHAWAY Beckford Ann SPENCER
14 11/04/1774 Joseph PATCHET Beckford Mary PULLAM
15 25/04/1775 John JAMES Elizabeth OLDACRES
16 28/10/1778 Thomas TAYLOR Ann POTTER
17 23/10/1779 William MACE Dumbleton Ann ROBERTS
19 07/02/1792 John SANFORD Single Ashchurch Mary POTTER Single
20 04/08/1793 James ATTWOOD Single Teddington, Worcestershire Hannah JORDAN
21 29/10/1794 John DAVIS Single Mary HALE Single
22 26/10/1795 John HUNT Single Betty JAMES Single
23 10/03/1796 William WELCH Single Hartpury Nancy DANCE Single
24 15/06/1797 John PLEVEN Single Winchcombe Sarah FOUCH Single
25 29/05/1800 Joseph MARTIN Single Sarah HEMMING Single
26 15/09/1800 John HOWSE Single St Andrew, Pershore, Worcestershire Phillis MARTIN Single
27 22/08/1803 John WALSH Single Ann TURNER Widow
1 28/11/1815 William DAY Guiting Power Hetty TEALE
2 14/08/1817 Thomas HEMING Single Ann WALSH Single
3 21/10/1819 Joseph STOLLARD Sally TEALE
4 14/10/1821 Thomas HARRISS Didbrook Susannah PORTER Single
5 23/04/1823 John KNIGHT Single Ann TAYLOR Single
6 29/01/1824 John GELDER Single Elizabeth LYES Single
7 26/07/1824 Richard NICHOLS Single Elizabeth DOBBINS Widow
8 18/07/1826 Charles PERKS Single Sarah DAVIS Single
9 31/08/1826 Charles TEALE Single Anne HEAL Single
10 01/12/1827 William ALLEN Single Elizabeth NEW Single Overbury, Worcestershire
11 01/05/1828 John DANCE Single Martha MILTON Single
12 09/07/1833 William TAYTON Single Sarah FOWLER Single Deerhurst
13 22/11/1833 George HARTLAND Single Charlotte HUNT
16 02/05/1837 William ROBERTS Single Little Washbourne Eliza BANCROFT Widow

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