Wispington St Margaret

England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Wispington St Margaret

The Parish

The parish of Wispington lies in central Lincolnshire roughly 4 miles west of the market town of Horncastle. Wispington sits just over a mile north of the meandering B1190 road which links Horncastle with Bardney and onward to Lincoln. Of today's Wispington there is very little, just the redundant church and a set of farm buildings but it was not ever so; Wispington is one of many former medieval villages that have disappeared in this county. The parish is largely flat arable land with cereals, beet and oil-seed today's main crops whereas at the time of this transcript a more rotational regime would have been in place. Wispington is drained westwards by the Catchwater Drain which eventually reaches the River Witham near Stixwould, the Witham heads determinedly southeast passing through Boston to the North Sea. Wispington is sited at around 30 metres above the sea, low in height but the highest ground for some distance in this relatively flat and low lying landscape. Covering just under 1,200 acres Wispington parish was small but not atypical for this county of numerous small parishes, that acreage would have supported barely 100 parishioners. Domesday Wispington was a much larger place, the entry places it in the largest 20% of settlements in the land by population with some 49 households, scarcely credible given today's tiny hamlet. Held by the Bishop of Durham its assets of 9 ploughs and some meadows tell of a more restrained version than that.

The Church

St Margaret's church sits amongst farm buildings to the west of Hungram Lane, the church was declared redundant in 1975 and the parish merged with neighbouring Edlington. The church that sits here, now used as a storage facility by the church authorities, is not the venue for these marriages as it is a Victorian replacement of 1863. The church uses lancet styled windows drawn as reference to the early English Gothic styling of the 13th century, its stand-out feature is, however, the western steeple which sits atop the nave and is topped by a broach spire. At the time of writing there is still access to the churchyard but given its status that must become threatened in time. Visitors should park sensibly around the entrance to the lane approaching the churchyard.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	28th May 1765 - 5th October 1810	Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - WISPINGTON/PAR/1/1	Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements	Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number	Fading of this register makes for a tricky read and the possibility of a few misreads
2	25th July 1814 - 10th May 1836	Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - WISPINGTON/PAR/1/2	Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register	Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads	None

Waddingworth St Margaret	Baumber St Swithin	Baumber St Swithin
Waddingworth St Margaret Bucknall St Margaret		Edlington St Helen
Bucknall St Margaret	Horsington All Saints	Edlington St Helen

Register Reference	Date	Groom Forename	Groom Surname	Groom Status	Groom Abode	Bride Forename	Bride Surname	Bride Status	Bride Abode
	28/05/1765	William	WALKER			Elizabeth	SOUTHWELL
	14/05/1769	William	HILL		Thimbleby	Mary	TAYLOR
	18/06/1769	John	WELBOURN		Holton Beckering	Elizabeth	DODDS
	08/01/1771	John	CLARK		Minting	Mary	DICKINS
	05/09/1775	William	HALL		Langton By Partney	Mary	GATTUM
	16/05/1776	Edward	CHAPMAN			Dorothy	PATTINSON
	26/12/1776	Robert	SUTTON			Rebecca	CARTER
	25/03/1777	Thomas	WINTER		Langton By Partney	Mary	HOGG
	31/01/1780	Benjamin	HOLDRID		Horncastle	Mary	BUTTON
	20/12/1781	Thomas	THORP			Bettee	SHAW
	19/10/1783	Thomas	CROSBY		Thurlby	Ann	KIRKBY
	14/05/1787	John	ELVING		Langton By Partney	Elizabeth	FORSMAN
	08/11/1788	William	LONGSTAFF		Roughton	Lydia	CAMM
	19/05/1795	William	ROBINSON			Sarah	HOLMES
	18/05/1797	George	ROWLANDS			Ann	KENDALL
	19/01/1801	Charles	WHITE	Single		Sarah	BROUGHTON	Single	Horncastle
	02/03/1801	Daniel	MAWER		Market Rasen	Ann	GODDARD
	17/05/1802	William	RYALL		Louth	Ann	WESTBY
	20/09/1803	John	SUTTON			Mary	HALL
	17/05/1804	John	DUCKERIN			Mary	HARLEY
	22/05/1804	John	STOKES		Bucknall	Ann	PICKWELL
	14/05/1805	Thomas	GRAVES		Hemingby	Ann	MARSHALL
	19/09/1805	James	GREEN			Mary	WARD
	14/05/1806	Thomas	YARNILL			Frances	KENT
	26/05/1806	John	CROWSTON			Mary	HALL		Horncastle
	05/10/1810	John	SARGENT		Horncastle	Ann	BELL
1	25/07/1814	James	MALTBY	Single	Toynton St Peter	Ann	HALL	Single
2	15/07/1816	William	HOWLET	Single		Elizabeth	HALL	Single
3	27/10/1818	Thomas	LEARY			Jane	LEDLEY
4	06/03/1820	William	BLACKBURN	Single		Mary	CADE	Single	Baumber
5	04/09/1820	Mark	HALL	Single		Mary	SUTTON	Single
6	04/09/1820	Thomas	SUTTON	Single		Elizabeth	BRADER	Widow
7	22/05/1821	Henry	HEATON	Single	Horncastle	Hannah	CARROTT	Single
8	29/10/1821	John	HUGHES	Single		Mary	BLAKEY	Single
9	31/05/1824	Thomas	BURCHBY	Single	Hagworthingham	Elizabeth	ALMOND	Single
10	28/07/1825	Thomas	TAYLOR	Widower	Bourne	Mary	CROWSTON	Widow
11	17/04/1827	John	ALMOND	Single		Rebecca	SUTTON	Single
12	14/05/1827	John	SUTTON	Widower		Frances	LARDER	Single	Toynton All Saints
13	07/05/1829	John	SMITH	Single	Baumber	Mary	GELL	Single
14	21/10/1830	George	HANNAH	Single		Mary	HOWDEN	Single
15	10/05/1836	John	SPENCER	Single	Wragby	Sarah	EVISON	Single

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