England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Crowland lies in the extreme southwest of Lincolnshire, indeed it forms not only part of the border with neighbouring Cambridgeshire but also with that of neighbouring Northamptonshire. Crowland is a large village and formerly a market town situated about 7 miles northeast of the Northamptonshire city of Peterborough and about 6 miles south of Spalding. Crowland sits astride the A1073 road which connects the two places, thankfully the road now bypasses the village to the east. Crowland has a long history having been reputedly founded along with its Abbey in the early 8th century. The story is that Crowland, a former island within the Fens, was the site of a hermitage chosen by St Guthlac and grew into a significant monastic site, the village growing around it into a market town. The area around Crowland has seen many changes over the centuries, it would have been a mixture of wild marshland crisscrossed by causeways with meandering rivers and an abundance of wildlife. The hand of man has since wrought a tamed and drained landscape of billiard-table flat fields growing a vast variety of crops from wheat & barley through to numerous vegetables and the bulbs that have made nearby Spalding famous. Crowland sits on the eastern banks of the River Welland which flows northwards to The Wash and the North Sea but many man-made drains, sluices and pumps drain the parish. Crowland sits at just 2 metres above the sea and there are no contours, except for the "0" contour for many miles around. Parishes within the reclaimed fen are typically rather large for southern Britain and Crowland is one of the larger, at around 13,000 acres it is more reminiscent of an upland northern parish but contrasts in landscape quite significantly with those vast unpopulated areas, the parish would have supported a population of around 3,000 parishioners. Strangely despite the presence of an abbey there is no specific mention of Crowland in Domesday Book. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 15th April 1754 - 30th December 1772 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - CROWLAND PAR/1/5 | Plain, ruled book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 23rd February 1773 - 9th August 1807 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - CROWLAND PAR/1/13 | 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 |
3 | 15th September 1807 - 9th February 1813 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - CROWLAND PAR/1/14 | 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 could lead to a few misreads |
4 | 22nd March 1813 - 5th June 1837 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - CROWLAND PAR/1/15 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Thurlby
St Germain
Bourne St Peter & St Paul |
Moulton
All Saints
Whaplode St Mary |
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Whaplode
St Mary
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Newborough
St Bartholomew, Northamptonshire
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Newborough
St Bartholomew, Northamptonshire
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Thorney
St Mary & St Botolph, Cambridgeshire
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