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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Dormington St Peter

 

The Parish

The parish of Dormington lies in the southeastern portion of central Herefordshire roughly 5 miles east of the county town of Hereford. Dormington sits on and mostly southwest of the A438 road which connects Hereford with Ledbury and is a very small place, indeed. The actual village consists merely of a strip of properties lining the lane which heads southwest from the A438 towards Mordiford whilst the wider parish also includes the equally small hamlet of Bartestree, a chapelry register for marriages, and a dotting of farms and cottages. The parish has a varied topography, the village sits within the valley of the River Frome, the water-meadows granted rich cattle pastures, to the south east rises the steep hill of Backbury Hill, offering forestry management and sheep grazing whilst its slopes provided well drained soils for the local speciality of cider orchards. Today even Bartestree has a vineyard. Water changes rivers in quick succession hereabouts, the Frome soon joining the Lugg and swiftly thereafter the Wye before making a lengthy journey to the Bristol Channel arriving through Chepstow. Dormington is sited at around 70 metres above the sea but the looming bulk of Backbury Hill dominates southwards views rising to the local high point at its hill-fort top standing at 225 metres. Dormington parish was tiny, if one excludes the chapelry of Bartrestree it covered merely 1,000 acres and supported close to 150 parishioners. In Domesday times Dormington was yet smaller holding only 2 households who shared a plough, meagre returns for its landholders the Canons of Hereford.


The Church

St Peter's church stands on the southeastern side of the Mordiford lane about 100 metres from the A438. The church, at its core, is of the 13th century but was much modified by restoration and addition during Victorian times. Of the remaining fabric from the 13th century one finds the main body of nave and chancel largely intact, most of the windows, of 2-lights with trefoiled or cinquefoiled heads, date from the last era of the 13th century and may be deemed Transitional rather then purist Early English Gothic. The chancel arch, often the first part of a church to be erected and from where building proceeds both east and west, is also late 13th century. Matters rested in this state until the major Victorian work of 1876-7, here there was not only a major restoration of the medieval content but also significant additions, the church's stand-out feature is the shingled bell-turret complete with a lead-coated broach spire, a Victorian addition as was the northern vestry, the southern porch in oak and its southern doorway, the eastern end of the chancel is also marked by a "Gothic-styled" Victorian east window. The lane passing the church carries significant traffic acting as an unofficial by-pass for traffic-clogged Hereford so careful road-side parking is required. Wooden gate grant entry to the churchyard which carries a few problems for the photographer, trees gather close around the southeastern corner removing the favoured aspects but all other angles are available.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
18th July 1754 - 24th August 1760
Herefordshire Archives & Record Centre
Bishops Transcripts on loose-leaf folios
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads
None
2 1st September 1762 - 4th May 1775 Herefordshire Archives & Record Centre - Reference - CH37/1 Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None
3 11th February 1779 - 12th March 1812
Herefordshire Archives & Record Centre - Reference - CH37/3 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
4
5th September 1813 - 26th September 1836
Herefordshire Archives & Record Centre - Reference - CA77/1
Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads
None


Withington St Peter
Bartrestree St James
Weston Beggard St John the Baptist
Stoke Edith St Mary
Lugwardine St Peter
Stoke Edith St Mary
Lugwardine St Peter
Mordiford Holy Rood
Tarrington St Philip & St James
Woolhope St George
Mordiford Holy Rood

1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830

Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
18/07/1754 John WALWYN

Mary CARWARDINE

28/04/1755 Thomas HOLLINGS

Elizabeth GREEN

07/09/1755 Thomas COOK

Elizabeth CORBET

08/02/1756 Edward PITT

Eleanor NUTT

15/05/1756 Thomas LOREMAN

Eleanor BERROW

12/06/1757 Francis LINK

Philippa CRUMP

30/11/1758 Charles POWELL
Hampton Bishop Margaret POWELL

13/12/1758 Thomas NEWTON
Lugwardine Ann WHARTON

24/08/1760 William COLE Widower Lugwardine Mary SPENSER

01/09/1762 Joseph GARNONS Widower
Jane GARNONS Single Bishops Frome
12/05/1763 William BRACE

Elizabeth LLOYD

15/07/1764 Joseph DAYKIN Single
Elizabeth WILLIAMS Single
29/10/1764 William WALLIS
Withington Mary CHAMBERLAIN Widow
05/01/1765 Thomas SPENCER Single Mordiford Susannah SMITH Single
11/02/1765 Joseph DAVIS

Ann BROWN

16/06/1766 Joseph GARDENER Widower
Sarah TAYLOR Single
29/10/1767 William HACKFORD
Fownhope Betty BAILEY

22/10/1768 Ambrose HINTON Widower Lugwardine Elizabeth GRIFFITHS Single
31/12/1772 Richard NASH Single Much Cowarne Margaret BAILEY Single
07/02/1774 James HOLLINGS Single Lugwardine Mary BREWER Widow
04/05/1775 Thomas JONES Single Lugwardine Ann TAYSOM Single
1 11/02/1779 Humphrey MOORE
St Nicholas, Hereford Mary NEWTON

2 30/03/1780 Richard NEWTON Single
Elizabeth THOMAS Single Lugwardine
3 26/04/1780 Francis SMITH Single
Elizabeth GODSALL Single
4 05/02/1781 John DAVIES Single Much Birch Ann DAVIES

5 12/02/1781 Thomas COOK Single
Ann PROSSER Single
6 25/05/1781 Thomas NEWTON Single
Elizabeth TAYLOR Widow
7 06/02/1782 John DOWNES Single
Mary SIRRELL Single
8 18/09/1785 James BOWEN Single Bartestree Mary BREWER Single Bartestree
9 27/02/1786 William SILVYN Single Newent, Gloucestershire Ann SMART Widow
10 08/07/1787 Cornelius BREWER Single Bartestree Eleanor MASON Single Bartestree
11 08/06/1790 Francis LINK Single
Ann JONES Single
12 28/05/1791 James CHECKIT Single Stoke Edith Elizabeth LEAK Single
13 27/11/1791 William JAMES Single Bartestree Mary GODSALL Single Bartestree
14 14/06/1792 William PULLEN Single Bartestree Margaret JONES Single Weston Beggard
15 12/08/1792 William BADHAM Single Lugwardine Ann HOLLINGS Single Bartestree
16 29/01/1793 Benjamin DAVIES Single
Mary HUFF Single
17 18/06/1793 John THOMAS Single
Mary COOKE Single
18 16/07/1795 William WILLIAMS Single St Owen, Hereford Elizabeth GODSALL Single Bartestree
19 17/08/1795 John KNOWLES
Bartestree Frances ANDREWS
Bartestree
20 23/03/1799 John LEGYT Single Redmarley D'Abitot, Gloucestershire Elizabeth TAYLOR Single
21 15/04/1799 John BARBER Single
Ann ROCK Single
22 13/10/1799 George WARWICK Single Lugwardine Elizabeth DAVIES Single
23 21/10/1804 William LEWIS Single
Anne GRIFFITHS

26/02/1805 Thomas PERKINS Single Berrow, Worcestershire Susannah GLADWYN Single
26/05/1805 Thomas TAYLOR Widower Much Cowarne Elizabeth LINK Single Bartestree
28/05/1806 William CARELESS Single
Ann THOMAS Single
06/05/1807 James BUFFON Single
Elizabeth CORBET Single
13/07/1807 Emanuel LEWIS
Bartestree Elizabeth HILL
Bartestree
27/04/1808 Richard HARFORD Single Eastnor Elizabeth GLADWIN Single
04/02/1809 William PITT Single
Mary POWELL Single
05/02/1809 Thomas PARKER Single
Catherine LINK Single
03/08/1809 Richard HANKINS Single Bartestree Anne HALL Single Hampton Bishop
31/12/1811 James BISHOP Single
Priscilla WHICHELO Single
05/02/1812 James THOMAS Single Stoke Edith Hester JONES Single
12/03/1812 William REEVE Widower Battersea, Surrey Mary GLADWIN Single
1 05/09/1813 John ROCK Widower
Sarah WATKINS Widow
2 12/11/1813 William PERKINS

Sarah SPARVEY
Mordiford
3 23/06/1815 William PEDLINGHAM Single Ledbury Elizabeth FAWKE Widow
4 05/07/1816 John CONNOP Single Lugwardine Harriot JORDAN Single
5 18/02/1817 Stephen HILL

Mary GRIFFITHS

6 03/12/1817 Francis LINK Single
Ann JEFFRIS Single
7 01/11/1818 Charles WOOD Single Tarrington Sarah LINK Single
8 23/09/1821 George BARTON Single St Marylebone, Middlesex Elizabeth LEGEYT Single
9 17/03/1822 William GLADWIN Single
Allice FLOYDE Single
10 02/05/1822 John DAVIES Single Gwenddwr, Breconshire Jane COOKE Single
11 23/06/1822 William HARRIS Single Weston Beggard Mary BARBER Single
12 23/07/1822 Richard DAVIES
St Andrew Holborn, City Of London Catherine BUILTH

13 04/12/1823 Henry LAWSON Single St Alphege, Canterbury, Kent Amelia JENNINGS

14 15/02/1825 James GLADWIN

Sarah GREEN

15 29/05/1826 Richard DAVIES

Jane DAVIES

16 08/06/1826 William MORRIS
Little Dewchurch Elizabeth GODSALL
Weston Beggard
17 26/05/1831 James JONES
Mordiford Ann BROOKES

18 14/03/1832 John GRIFFITHS

Caroline BISHOP

19 18/10/1832 William BAILEY

Ellen DAVIS

20 30/01/1834 Andrew PARKER

Ann KEDWARD

21 26/09/1836 Richard SMYTH
Hampton Bishop Elizabeth VEVERS

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