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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Rodmersham St Nicholas

 

The Parish

The parish of Rodmersham is located in northern Kent quite close to the Swale Estuary & its junction with that of the Thames. Rodmersham is rather a dispersed settlement located about 1 mile southeast of the market town of Sittingbourne. Rodmersham lies, in lanes, about a mile south of the A2 (London to Dover road) on a lane that heads for its modern successor, the M2 motorway. The main settlement is at Rodmersham Green to the south of the parish but elsewhere there are scattered farms and cottages across a wide area. Rodmersham sits on the rather flat north Kent coastal plain to the north of the North Downs chalk ridge, the area is a mixture of arable agriculture together with market gardening and orchards. The estuary of the River Swale lies about 3 miles north of Rodmersham and small brooks and field drains head towards Conyer Creek to join it. Rodmersham is sited at around 40 metres above the sea and the land around is largely flat or gently undulating. The coastal plain is an area of tightly packed small parishes and Rodmersham fits that pattern, at just over 1,200 acres it would have supported just over 300 parishioners. There is no specific mention of Rodmersham in Domesday Book.


The Church

St Nicholas' church lies on the western side of Rodmersham's main north/south running lane, here called Church Street, and to the northeast of Rodmersham Green the main settlement. The church receives a characteristically acidic set of comments from Pevsner for an over-restored church, he describes it as "intrinsically unexciting" - a rather unfair comment in my view. Much of the building is of the Perpendicular period albeit with one or two indications of an earlier Decorated style building. The rather heavy-handed restorations date from the late 19th century. The church is rather screened from the road by a row of tall conifers, a nice lychgate grants access to the graveyard. Once inside there are not too many restrictions to photography.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 24th June 1754 - 3rd June 1811 Kent History & Library Centre - Maidstone - Reference - P307/1/A/3
 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
2 8th March 1813 - 23rd April 1837 Kent History & Library Centre - Maidstone - Reference - P307/1/D/1
 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Murston All Saints
Bapchild St Lawrence
Bapchild St Lawrence
Tonge St Giles
Murston All Saints
Milstead St Mary & the Holy Cross
Tonge St Giles
Milstead St Mary & the Holy Cross
Kingsdown St Catherine
Kingsdown St Catherine

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
12/02/1754 John STAPLE     Mary BURVIL    
1 24/06/1754 Joseph HOSBIN Single   Mary HEARNE Widow  
2 23/09/1754 George MILLS Single   Mary TAYLOR Single  
3 08/09/1755 William SANDS Single   Mary REEVE Single  
4 06/01/1757 James HARRIS Single   Mary HERNE    
5 07/01/1757 John MANSHALL Single Newington Next Sittingbourne Elizabeth MAY Single  
6 03/02/1757 Thomas LUXFORD Single Rainham Jane HARRIS Single  
7 15/06/1758 John READ Single   Anne FEKENS Single  
8 24/06/1758 William GOSLING Single   Elizabeth TAYLOR Widow  
9 23/10/1758 Edward DUTNAL Widower   Elizabeth LILLY Single  
10 22/07/1759 Thomas STUBERFIELD Single   Elizabeth REEVE Single  
11 22/10/1759 Thomas COLLINS Single   Judith LUCKHURST Single  
12 03/09/1760 Joseph DENNIS     Elizabeth FEARNS    
13 24/12/1760 William WATKINS Widower   Mary RAYNER Single  
14 11/05/1761 John BATES Single Tonge Anne HANDFORD Single  
15 11/05/1761 Thomas WILLIAMS Single   Anne HIBBIN    
16 19/05/1761 Thomas BANSTED Single Faversham Mary HOOK Widow  
17 19/10/1762 William LOFT Single   Elizabeth SAVAGE Single  
18 04/03/1763 William POST Single Throwley Mary MILGATE Single  
19 05/04/1763 Samuel BARNES Single Sittingbourne Elizabeth TAYLOR Single  
20 28/09/1763 Joseph GANE Single Milton By Sittingbourne Frances HEARN Single  
21 15/01/1764 George SPICER Single   Mary STEDMANS Single  
22 22/10/1765 John FEARNS Single   Mary BRITCHER Single  
06/08/1767 Uriah JAKES Single Chart Sutton Sarah LATCHFORD    
05/04/1768 William HOPPER Single Tonge Sarah LAWSON    
22/05/1770 James KING     Ann STUBBERFIELD    
09/07/1770 William NASH   St Katherine By Tower, City Of London Mary SEAGER    
15/08/1770 James BURGESS     Mary LATCHFORD    
06/12/1770 John MILGATT     Sarah DIVEALL    
15/09/1771 John LOVE     Ann DOWN    
21/11/1771 William SEAGER     Ann SHEPHERD    
15/12/1771 Christopher DIVES     Elizabeth PHIPPS    
20/02/1772 Henry REEVE Single Sittingbourne Mary BAKER Single  
03/05/1772 James ROCKLIFFE   Teynham Elizabeth TUCKER    
29/10/1772 Edward BOTTLE     Margaret MILLINER    
04/03/1773 John FEKINS     Hanna MORE    
30/05/1773 Thomas MITCHELL   Sittingbourne Pleasant SANDS    
10/11/1773 William BAKER     Mary AUSTINE   Rochester
12/10/1775 William ROPER     Ann TURNER    
24/10/1775 Thomas BOYES   Sittingbourne Susan REED    
13/11/1775 Phillip PARSONS   Bermondsey, Surrey Elizabeth ROSE    
11/12/1775 Richard JARRATT     Margaret SEARS    
22/04/1777 William THOMAS     Mary WALLER    
19/09/1778 Thomas NORRIS     Abigal ROPER    
14/10/1778 Joseph BARRATT     Sarah FRYDAY   Doddington
01/02/1781 Stephen MILLGATE     Elizabeth Ann BOUGHTON    
21/05/1781 John GARRETT   Tonge Elizabeth EDMED    
05/11/1783 George MILLS     Ann PAIN    
20/12/1783 James GRIXBEY     Elizabeth JARRETT    
19/01/1784 George ALLEN     Elizabeth BAKER    
29/03/1784 Thomas BANISTER     Sarah KNIGHT    
16/04/1784 Elisha DAVIS     Sarah BARRET    
07/11/1784 John GOODWIN   Milton By Sittingbourne Elizabeth BAKER    
22/04/1786 Owen HINDES     Sarah HODGES    
13/08/1786 John ALEXANDER     Elizabeth GILLMAN    
06/09/1786 Richard SEAR   Minster In Sheppey Mary HAYWARD    
11/10/1786 James BARRETT     Grace GRANT    
26/12/1786 James THOMSETT     Mary RIDDLE    
28/05/1787 Thomas PACKHAM     Mary BELLSUM    
11/02/1788 John MATTHEWSON   Wormshill Mary COLE    
06/10/1788 William WEEB     Susanna EDMED    
14/04/1789 James HARRIS   Sittingbourne Ann COOPER    
14/04/1789 Charles CHITTENDEN   Sittingbourne Mary HARRIS    
09/06/1790 John HATCH     Ann SEAGER    
24/06/1790 Robert HARTRIDGE     Mary BAILEY    
31/07/1790 John ALLARD   Ospringe Ann CAREY    
25/11/1790 John BAKER   Frindsbury Elizabeth TAYLOR    
03/03/1792 John PETT   Lynsted Susanna HUGHES    
17/03/1792 James KNOWLER   Norton Ann SMITH    
12/05/1792 John TIMS   St Pancras, Middlesex Mary TAYLOR    
11/10/1794 Aaron EAGLES Single   Elizabeth SHARLOCK Single  
27/04/1795 John WADE     Elinior READ    
05/12/1795 Lushington TAYLOR Single   Elizabeth BARLING Single Lynsted
16/10/1797 Henry COURT     Sarah COUSINS    
15/10/1799 Thomas BARRETT   Tunstall Margaret EARLES    
12/10/1800 William PAIN     Esther CORK   Doddington
02/09/1801 Robert Gunsley DE LASAUX Single Ashford Frances Fairman TAYLOR    
20/10/1801 Thomas EYPES   Stone Next Dartford Mary BELSOM    
12/09/1802 Thomas BURGESS Widower Milton By Sittingbourne Elizabeth ELLIS Single  
13/10/1802 Daniel YADEN     Frances WILDS    
08/01/1803 William PACKHAM     Ann READ   Tonge
10/10/1803 Thomas FREE     Elizabeth Mary ALLSWORTH    
13/02/1804 Isaac THOMSON     Elizabeth BYERS    
29/08/1804 William TURNBULL   Hythe Ann EDMONDS    
03/09/1804 Jonathan BELSAM     Jemima WELLER    
12/11/1804 John BROOKER     Elizabeth LUCCKIT    
13/10/1805 William HUGHES   Bredgar Sarah CORK    
04/02/1806 John SMITH     Elizabeth HOOPER    
29/09/1806 Jesse THOMAS     Elizabeth CLAYTON    
11/10/1806 Thomas NICHOLSON     Elizabeth THOMAS    
13/10/1806 Isaac WILDS     Elizabeth OLIVER    
28/11/1807 Thomas LUCKETT Single   Frances FOX Single  
12/10/1808 William LAKE     Lydia SMITH    
04/02/1809 George GODDING     Anne MILGATE    
10/10/1809 Arthur PACKHAM     Hannah SELLEN    
11/10/1809 John FIELDER     Sarah BEDDINGFIELD    
21/07/1810 Hezekiah KITE Single   Isabella AKEHURST Single  
13/10/1810 Joseph BROWN     Hannah BRENCHLEY   Ospringe
21/01/1811 William FRENCH     Elizabeth NOKES    
18/05/1811 Thomas DAVIS     Sarah WILLER   Sittingbourne
03/06/1811 John SCWEER     Martha BARRETT    
1 08/03/1813 John HUNT Widower   Mary MARSHALL Single  
2 12/10/1813 James LUCKETT Single   Mary HODGIS Single  
3 12/10/1813 Daniel THOMAS Single   Sarah BARNETT Single  
4 30/04/1814 Thomas SAYER Single   Sarah CHAPMAN Single  
5 01/08/1814 James HUMM   Ospringe Susannah MARSHALL    
6 06/09/1814 Charles BACON Single   Sarah LUCKETT Single  
7 15/10/1814 Matthew LANKTON Single   Harriot GAMBLE Single  
8 22/11/1814 James PHILIPS Single   Judith KITE    
9 26/11/1814 William HUNT Single   Elizabeth JARRET Single  
10 19/06/1816 George GIBBONS Single Sittingbourne Elizabeth HARTRIDGE Single  
11 31/08/1816 Stephen HALES Single   Mary Ann HALES Single  
12 05/02/1817 Richard SOLLY Single Mundon, Essex Mary DINNE Single  
13 03/03/1817 John PIPER Widower   Sophia LUCKETT Single  
14 01/09/1817 Thomas JARRETT Single   Mary WELLS Single  
15 13/10/1817 George GOODER Single   Emily DAVIS Single  
16 08/05/1819 John HALES Single   Mary SELLER Single  
17 10/06/1820 James DEAN Single   Mary GAMBELL Single  
18 15/01/1821 John COOPER Single Sittingbourne Mary ANDERSON Single  
19 03/03/1821 James THOMAS Single   Harriet BARRETT Single  
20 09/04/1821 John WHITE Single   Maria CHRISTMAS Single  
21 10/07/1821 William COVENY Single   Ann WATERS Single  
22 31/07/1821 William BOTTLE Widower Bapchild Elizabeth KIDNEY Single  
23 02/04/1822 William SORWELL Single   Anna Maria COALL Single  
24 27/05/1822 Thomas ELSICK Single   Mary LAWRENCE Single  
25 14/10/1822 William SIVIER Single Wormshill Hannah FULLEGAR Single  
26 14/10/1822 John FULLAGAR Single   Frances SHEMSLEY Single  
27 05/05/1823 John BROOKER Widower   Catherine FORSTER Widow  
28 20/05/1823 William HEATHFIELD Single   Caroline HUGHES Single  
29 02/06/1823 George TURNER Single Tonge Eliza STEER Single  
30 09/07/1825 John HUDSON Widower   Mary FISHER Single  
31 07/10/1825 Richard COOPER Widower Milstead Harriot DAYN Single  
32 02/01/1826 Samuel SAGE Single   Ann DAVIS Single  
33 26/08/1826 Charles THOMAS Single   Harriet HATCH Single  
34 31/07/1827 James GAMBELL Single   Elizabeth MARCHANT Single  
35 13/10/1827 Samuel CASTLE Single   Frances WOOD Single  
36 12/07/1828 William HAMSHIRE Single   Anna Maria SELTON Single  
37 29/08/1829 Samuel THEOBARD Single   Mary FEAKINS Single  
38 26/12/1830 James CHAMP   Eastchurch Sarah WOOD    
39 09/02/1831 Charles LAKE Single   Susannah VANDEPEER Widow  
40 25/04/1831 John YORK Single   Frances WOOD Single  
41 03/09/1831 John ALLWOOD Single Hucking Amy FULLEGAR Single  
42 15/10/1831 Benjamin KEMP Single   Sarah HIGENS Single  
43 19/11/1831 Fardee Andrew KNIGHT Single   Sarah SAUNDERS    
44 22/07/1832 John SAGE Single   Mary KEMSLEY Single  
45 27/07/1834 Solomon WOOD   Tonge Hannah BROOKER    
46 12/08/1834 George PACKHAM     Eliza KEMP   Norton
47 23/04/1837 Francis KENNARD Single   Martha SAYWELL Single  

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