England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe 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. |
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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 |
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St John the Baptist
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St John the Baptist
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St John the Baptist
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St John the Baptist
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St John the Baptist
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Washbourne St Mary
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Washbourne St Mary
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Washbourne St Mary
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