England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Baston lies in the extreme south of Lincolnshire about 3 miles north of the small market town of Market Deeping. Baston is a substantial village which site, with most properties lying eastwards, on the A16 road which connects Peterborough with Bourne. Baston is one of a series of Fen-edge settlements that the A16 passes through as it makes its way northwards. Baston's economy would have been dominated by arable farming although its position adjacent to Fenland would have given it access to the wildfowl, thatch and ell fisheries of those lands. Today Baston has enlarged its position adjacent to one of the major roads of the area giving its access to commuters from nearby Peterborough. Baston is drained northeastwards by the much man modified River Glen which heads to join the Welland and thence to the North Sea through The Wash. Baston is sited around 5 metres above the sea and land rises out of the Fen to the west to reach local heights of close to 30 metres. Fenland parishes are often large, swollen by reclaimed land, whilst Baston parish is large for a southern parish it is not overly so, it covered close to 3,200 acres and would have supported a population of around 750 parishioners. In Domesday times Baston was shared roughly equally by Crowland Abbey and Gilbert de Ghent, collectively it could muster 5 ploughs, a small meadows and a half share in a mill. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 23rd May 1754 - 18th August 1812 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - BASTON PAR/1/9 | 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 | 11th January 1813 - 26th June 1837 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - BASTON PAR/1/10 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Poor handwriting in the latter stages may lead to one or two misreads |
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