England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Plumstead lies in the extreme northwest of Kent forming part of the county's coastline with the Thames Estuary. Plumstead is located about 10 miles southeast of the City of London and sits on the A206 road which closely follows the southern banks of the Thames connecting London with Gravesend. At the start of this transcript period Plumstead would have been a small and separate market town and port serving its local community for central services as well as being surrounded by the market gardens and farms serving the capital. Plumstead has changed as a result of two principal impacts, the presence of Greenwich and its naval connections as well as Woolwich and its military arsenal substantially increased the population. Once railways arrived the spread of London suburbia grew exponentially engulfing Plumstead in a sea of housing, today it is an integral part of the contiguous area of Greater London. The naval & military connections of the area would have provided supplementary income from the retail, specialist craftsman and light industrial usage of a small market town. As a coastal settlements numerous small streams would have drained the parish into the nearby Thames, most today are subterranean. Plumstead is sited at between sea level and roughly 10 metres around the church, land rises gently away from the Thames towards the distant North Downs reaching local heights of 60 metres by the time one reaches Eltham & Bexley. Plumstead parish was fairly typically sized for a market town parish, it covered just under 3,400 acres and would have supported an initial population of close to 1,000 parishioners, by the end of the transcript period this population had swollen to eight times that figure. In Domesday times Plumstead was a much smaller place, shared between Bishop Odo of Bayeux and Canterbury Abbey it could collectively offer 12 ploughs and small tracts of woodland populated by swine render. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 22nd April 1754 - 10th October 1783 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/003 | 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 | 1st November 1783 - 13th January 1788 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/004 | Plain, unruled 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 | A short but scruffy register with some faded entries making for a possibility of one or two misreads |
3 | 29th January 1788 - 26th August 1795 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/005 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading to this register may result in one or two misreads |
4 | 7th September 1795 - 19th July 1803 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/006 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading to this register may result in one or two misreads |
5 | 21st July 1803 - 7th May 1811 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/009 | 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 |
6 | 13th May 1811 - 28th December 1812 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/010 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
7 | 3rd January 1813 - 3rd October 1817 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/021 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
8 | 5th October 1817 - 4th June 1827 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/022 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
9 | 4th June 1827 - 26th June 1837 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P97/NIC/023 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
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Woolwich
St Mary Magdalene
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Erith
St John the Baptist
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Eltham
St John the Baptist
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Eltham
St John the Baptist
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