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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Stainby St Peter

 

The Parish

The parish of Stainby lies in the remote southwest of Lincolnshire forming part of the border with neighbouring Leicestershire and being also quite close to Rutland. Stainby is located roughly 9 miles south of the market town of Grantham and a similar distance east of the Leicestershire market town of Melton Mowbray. Stainby is a very small crossroads village situated on the B676 road which connects Melton Mowbray through to the Great North Road at Colsterworth. Most properties sit just to the south of the B676. Like many Lincolnshire parishes Stainby was an arable farming settlement albeit some income came from the use of the local stone, quarries still lie around the village today. Freight lines to extract the lime & iron-stones have now largely been dismantled. Small streams drain the parish eastwards into the nearby River Witham which heads northwards eventually to reach the North Sea through the port of Boston. Stainby is sited at around 120 metres above the sea in fairly gentle terrain which rises westwards reaching 158 metres at nearby Buckminster in Leicestershire. Lincolnshire parishes are often small in extent and Stainby was no exception, covering just under 1,400 acres it would have supported a population of almost 200 parishioners. In Domesday times Stainby was equally unremarkable, held by Alfred of Lincoln it could muster just a pair of ploughs, the usual meadows & woodland but surprisingly it had 2 mills.


The Church

St Peter's church sits on the western edge of the village on the southern side of the Buckminster Road. Sadly this church is not some medieval masterpiece, indeed it is not even the venue for the events listed in this transcript. The village's original church was demolished in Victorian times and the present St Peter built in 1865. The church uses the style of the Early English Gothic period, which raises speculation as to that being the period of its predecessor. Some reused material are within the northern aisle. Otherwise the only notable feature is the western tower complete with its broach spire. Whilst the church is undoubtedly pleasant it didn't excite Pevsner whose account consist of just 3 plines of mainly descriptive text. Hall Lane to the east of the church is quieter for parking and both it and Buckminster Road have gated entrances into a churchyard with few obstacles for the photographer.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 1st December 1755 - 21st January 1812 Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - STAINBY PAR/1/2 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 5th July 1813 - 8th June 1836 Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - STAINBY PAR/1/3 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Buckminster St John the Baptist, Leicestershire
Colsterworth St John the Baptist
Colsterworth St John the Baptist
Buckminster St John the Baptist, Leicestershire
Colsterworth St John the Baptist
Buckminster St John the Baptist, Leicestershire
Gunby by Stainby St Nicholas
North Witham St Mary

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
1 01/12/1755 John GOODACRE Mary BLACK Single
2 25/11/1756 Thomas MOORE Scalford, Leicestershire Ann MARTON Single
3 31/01/1757 William ALLEN Saxby, Leicestershire Jane JACKSON Single
4 31/01/1757 Robert WILFORD Mary STEEL Single
5 21/11/1757 Edward ALLEN Ann MUSSON Single
6 01/12/1757 Thomas NEWMAN South Witham Catherine BOWDER Single South Witham
7 06/06/1758 William SKILLINGTON Morton Ann STEEL Single
8 09/11/1758 Nathanael MARROT Ingoldsby Alice OLDHAM Single
9 26/05/1760 William LINE Ann RIDEARTH Widow
10 13/05/1762 William EVERITT Saxby, Leicestershire Eleanor LINE Single
11 12/07/1762 Robert SHERRACK Whatton, Nottinghamshire Mary MUSSON Single
12 20/09/1762 James DOVE Widower Stoke Rochford Catherine WATCHORN Widow
13 21/09/1762 James MILSON Mary ROBINSON Single Woolsthorpe
14 13/02/1764 Thomas STEEL Elizabeth ROBERTS Single
15 26/02/1764 John KIDSON Single Loughborough, Leicestershire Ann WATSON Single South Witham
16 30/10/1764 Thomas ALLEN Elizabeth CARTER
17 28/04/1765 Edward MARSON Jane RUXBY
18 16/01/1766 Richard MARSON Elizabeth DOVE
19 17/09/1767 Daniel HARKER Wood Newton, Northamptonshire Ann BARKER
20 10/05/1768 John BREWIN Mary STEEL Widow
21 16/06/1768 John HARDY North Witham Ann GREEN
22 25/12/1770 William JACKSON Elizabeth GIBSON Single
23 06/05/1773 Samuel WESTON Triphena MUSSON Single
24 12/04/1774 John WESTON Single Ann HARBY Widow
25 02/05/1775 John ADCOCK Sarah JACKSON Single
26 08/10/1776 George WELSTON Single Luci BEESON Single
27 11/02/1777 John WHEATLEY Single Alice WRIGHT Single
28 22/05/1777 William STIMSON North Witham Mary TAYLOR
29 22/05/1777 Richard MATTOCK Mary WESTON
30 01/06/1779 Thomas LOVEDGE Catharine PARKER
31 27/12/1779 William DOVE Elizabeth CLIPSHAM St John, Stamford
32 30/04/1780 Joseph ROBERSON Ann TAYLOR
33 07/07/1780 Edward DOUBLEDAY Buckminster, Leicestershire Sarah ADCOCK
34 25/09/1783 John PALFREY Sarah GOODACRE
35 20/11/1783 William STEEL Mary BERRY Langham, Rutland
36 11/05/1784 James DOVE Mary STEEL
37 18/05/1788 Henry LOO Mary JACKSON
38 14/06/1790 Daniel RUDKIN Mary WARING Colsterworth
39 18/07/1792 Thomas RAWLINSON Denham, Buckinghamshire Mary MARSON
40 11/04/1796 Edward PRESTON Elizabeth BELL
41 16/10/1797 William DRAYTON Elizabeth MARSON
42 05/07/1799 Josiah BUXTON Low Toynton Ann WESTON
43 12/05/1800 Edward MINTA Mowsley, Leicestershire Amy RUDKIN
44 22/01/1801 John SMITHERINGALE Colsterworth Ann WESTON
45 05/10/1802 Edward MATTOCKS Colsterworth Tryphena WESTON
46 02/07/1803 Robert RUDKIN Mary ROWE
47 19/12/1803 William ATKINSON Buckminster, Leicestershire Ann BARNES
48 12/10/1806 John WOOLLEY Single Julia PARKINSON Single
49 20/02/1808 Samuel LANE Widower Frisby On The Wreake, Leicestershire Elizabeth BLACKBURNE Single
50 10/05/1808 Newton TAYLOR Single Colsterworth Ann DOVE Single
51 18/10/1809 Robert RUDKIN Frances GANT
52 02/01/1810 Samuel WESTON Single Sarah FRANCES Single
53 22/02/1810 John HARDY Single Sarah STEEL Single
54 21/01/1812 John RUDKIN Single Susannah EAGLESFIELD Single
1 05/07/1813 John GRICE Single Mary MARSON Single
2 12/07/1813 Henry TURNER Widower Castle Bytham Mary BEESON Widow
3 20/10/1814 William GRICE Single Frances GRICE Single
4 09/10/1815 John HARDY Widower Elizabeth HENFREY Single
5 09/12/1816 David LEE Single Sarah BREWSTER Single
6 18/04/1818 John STANGAR Single Eve RUDKIN Widow
7 24/11/1818 George HOTCHIN Single Jane LEE Single
8 07/12/1818 Robert BAYLEY Single Anne STEEL Single
9 25/10/1819 John MILLER Single Ann PRIESTMAN Single
10 14/08/1820 James COTTINGHAM Single Skillington Tryphena WESTON Single
11 08/07/1821 Richard GRICE Single Leicestershire Elizabeth Wyer MARSON Single
12 02/07/1822 John GANT Single Elizabeth JERSON Single
13 18/11/1822 George CULPIN Single Ann Jane DRAYTON Single
14 15/09/1823 John Hector ANDREWS Single Mary GOODACRE Single
15 26/09/1824 William MUSSON Single Ann KENWELL Single
16 30/11/1824 John BASS Single Sproxton, Leicestershire Elizabeth CHAPMAN Single
17 14/03/1826 Richard FLOAR Stapleford, Leicestershire Elizabeth PRIESTMAN
18 13/11/1827 Robert WHALEY Single St Andrew Holborn, City Of London Alice STEEL Single
19 03/12/1829 Henry HAWKINS Royston, Hertfordshire Maria Eleanor OSBORNE
20 21/12/1829 William BOTTOM Ann RUDKIN
21 30/08/1830 William WOOD Plungar, Leicestershire Elizabeth RUDKIN
22 21/12/1830 Thomas Charles ORD Single Galby, Leicestershire Elizabeth PENFORD
23 28/07/1831 Richard DUNSMORE Elizabeth GREASLEY
24 04/12/1831 Simon CLARK Single Deborah RUDKIN Widow
25 05/01/1832 Thomas SELBY Stoke Rochford Mary SMITHERINGALE
26 29/11/1832 James MUSSON Jane STEPHENS
27 11/12/1832 George TOWNSEND Stapleford, Leicestershire Elizabeth DUNSMORE
28 30/09/1833 William ALLEN Great Casterton, Rutland Deborah CLARKE
29 25/11/1833 William STURGESS Knipton, Leicestershire Elizabeth BLACKFORD
30 26/11/1833 John SADDINGTON Market Overton, Rutland Elizabeth PRIESTMAN
31 02/06/1834 John PRIESTMAN Mary Ann MARSON
32 08/06/1836 William ATTER Colsterworth Mary PRESTON

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