England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Covenham St Mary, there being two Covenhams scarcely separate from each other, lies in northeastern Lincolnshire not too far from its eastern North Sea coastline. Covenham St Mary is located roughly 5 miles north of the market town of Louth and sits a little over 2 miles east of the A16 road which connects Louth with the port of Grimsby. Covenham St Mary is a small and compact village built largely around a triangular junction of lanes, the northwards extension is the long straggle of Covenham St Bartholomew, a separate parish but contiguous with Covenham St Mary. Like most Lincolnshire parishes Covenham St Mary would have been, and still largely is, an arable farming parish, it sits, however, on low-lying ground where drainage has created usable land, the wetter areas would have only supported grazing of cattle. Much of the drainage is man-influenced and disrupted by the construction of the Louth Canal where once streams and drains would have made their way to Granthorpe Haven and the North Sea. Covenham St Mary is sited at just 5 metres above the sea and land eastwards is lower, the 20 metre contour is only met at the A16 which follows the base of the rising ground of the Wolds. In a county of small parishes Covenham St Mary was fairly typical, covering just under 1,000 acres it would have supported close to 150 parishioners. In Domesday times both Covenhams were reported together, although with two manors (one held by the Bishop of Durham, the other by William de Percy) it is tempting to suggest they represent the two parishes, collectively their assets totalled 12 ploughs, extensive meadows and an impressive 7 salthouses. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
11th March 1755 |
Lincolnshire Archives - Reference -
COVENHAM_ST_MARY/PAR/1/2 |
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 |
2 | 10th May 1756 - 31st December 1812 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - COVENHAM_ST_MARY/PAR/1/4 | 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 |
3 | 11th June 1816 -3rd May 1836 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - COVENHAM_ST_MARY/PAR/1/3 | 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 | Sporadic fading of this register may result in one or two misreads |
Covenham
St Bartholomew
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Grainthorpe
St Clement
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Grainthorpe
St Clement
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Little
Grimsby St Edith
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