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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Snarford St Lawrence

 

The Parish

The parish of Snarford lies in the northwestern portion of central Lincolnshire. Snarford is located about 7 miles southwest of the market town of Market Rasen. There is very little to Snarford today, just a farmhouse and church alongside a narrow lane which leads northwards from the A46 road which connects Lincoln with Market Rasen, the former village site lies to the northwest of this lane but has been leveled. This is a very depopulated area, the parish consists almost entirely of arable fields, wide and open under huge skies. What little drainage there is is man modified but heading southwards to become the Barlings Eau, a tributary of the Witham and heading for the North Sea through Boston. Snarford is sited at just 15 metres above sea level and the land height varies little for some distance. By the standards of even this area of Lincolnshire Snarford covered a small area, about half the size of a "normal" parish for the area and it supported barely 70 parishioners. In Domesday times the land was shared three ways, the main landholder being the Bishop of Durham. The parish supported 4 ploughs and had some meadows.


The Church

St Lawrence's church is quite tricky to see from afar being surrounded by trees and almost invisible within them, it sits alongside the lane which is Snarford's only road. The church is quite an ancient one, the tower being the main feature. This has a 12th century base with 13th or 14th century topping and is the only feature of the church which merits much comment from Pevsner. The rest of the building he rather dismissively states as "nothing else worth while architecturally". The church, as stated sits in the only significant stand of trees in the district and these totally surround the building. A small wooden gate gives access to the site but views are heavily restricted making for tricky photographic angles to achieve a satisfactory set of images.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 15th April 1754 - 17th February 1805 Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - SNARFORD PAR/1/1 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 19th April 1819 - 25th August 1836 Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - SNARFORD PAR/1/2 Nonstandard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register, it is nonstandard in not being prenumbered leaving the clerk to complete that detail Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


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Friesthorpe St Peter
Welton St Mary
Snelland All Saints
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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
15/04/1754 Thomas HAWLEY     Alice SMITH    
28/03/1758 Thomas DENTON Single   Elizabeth WATTAM    
30/06/1767 Robert FARLEY   Linwood Mary MILLER    
24/11/1767 William SHORE Single   Ann HORFLEY Single  
01/01/1771 John SMITH     Jane FIELDS    
07/07/1772 William VICKARS     Mary WESTFIELD    
18/12/1774 Robert HIRD Single   Mary PARSONS Single  
12/05/1776 Isaac CHEESEMAN Single   Catherine ALLIS Single  
06/02/1780 William ROBINSON Widower   Elizabeth HOLMES Single  
13/08/1780 John FROST   Faldingworth Elizabeth WESTFIELD    
18/01/1791 William COX     Sarah BROWN    
07/02/1792 William HARRISON     Sarah WILSON   Snelland
02/04/1793 Joseph BELLAMY Single   Ann MILLER Single  
02/02/1794 John HOWSOM     Elizabeth BROWN    
01/12/1802 Thomas BAXTER   Faldingworth Alice BAXTER    
24/04/1804 Samuel ALLIS     Mary PAGE    
14/05/1804 John MILLER Single   Alice PRIDDEN Single Welton
27/05/1804 Humphry WATKINSON Single   Ann MILLER Widow  
27/07/1804 Richard KNIGHT Single   Ann BROWN Widow Hainton
17/02/1805 Mark COULBECK Single Middle Rasen Ann HADSON Single  
1 19/04/1819 William BARNFORD Single   Jane PEGGE Single  
2 29/11/1820 William LAMB Single Aubourn Mary FIELDSEND Single  
3 07/02/1821 Charles FRIDLINGTON Single Friesthorpe Sarah MATHERS Single  
4 14/05/1821 Robert OVERTON     Elizabeth PAGE    
5 19/08/1821 William THOMPSON Single   Mary BUTTON Single  
6 28/02/1826 John STAINTON Single Faldingworth Martha GOULDING Single  
7 20/03/1827 Thomas TWELVES Single Bracebridge Charlotte MEYTHERS    
8 10/04/1832 Thomas JOHNSTONE     Hannah COTTINGHAM    
9 02/12/1832 Thomas GALLANDS     Mary Anne JOYCE    
10 03/12/1832 John OTTER   Friesthorpe Mary COTTINGHAM    
11 31/12/1832 Joseph BARR     Elizabeth SOWEL    
12 11/08/1835 James SMITHSON   Habrough Sarah PAGE    
13 25/08/1836 William COTTINGHAM     Anne HILL    

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