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

 

The Parish

The parish of Woodhall lies in central Lincolnshire about 3 miles southwest of the market town of Horncastle. Woodhall, now designated Old Woodhall on modern Ordnance Survey maps sits 2 miles west of the B1191 road which connects Horncastle with the Victorian Spa town of Woodhall Spa. There is very little indeed to Woodhall, although the parish included Woodhall Spa within its area, this was a spa town created for the mineral waters found within the area, the old site of Woodhall has barely any inhabitants today. There are a couple of farms and some medieval earthworks but little else but the ubiquitous cereal fields of this area. Arable agriculture is and was the dominant economic force in this part of the world and almost all parish acreage would have been set to the plough. Woodhall is drained westwards the short distance to the nearby River Witham by small streams and field drains, the Witham makes its way to the North Sea through the port of Boston. Woodhall is sited at around 20 metres above the sea in very gentle terrain, a slight slope rises northeastwards to top 59 metres at Langton Hill on the outskirts of Horncastle. Sitting at just under 1,900 acres Woodhall was a typical size for a Lincolnshire parish, it would have held near to 300 parishioners but far fewer outside of the Spa today. Woodhall is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book.



The Church

St Margaret's church was demolished in the 1970s, it sat adjacent to Old Hall Farm on a short southward running lane off the main lane through the village. Intrepid explorers have investigated the site and found the churchyard totally overgrown with even the ancient yews gone wild. Early gazetteers describe the church as being a modern structure with a spire-topped medieval tower but there is no trace of that structure today.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
4th June 1754 - 31st October 1810
Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - WOODHALL/PAR/1/3
Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads
None
2 17th May 1813 - 29th June 1837  Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - WOODHALL/PAR/1/4 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 Fading of this register may result in one or two misreads


Stixwold St Peter
Edlington St Helen
Thimbleby St Margaret
Timberland St Margaret
Langton St Margaret
Thornton St Wilfred
Martin St Michael
Timberland St Margaret
Kirkstead St Leonard
Kirkby on Bain 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 04/06/1754 John DIXON Single Stixwold Ann DOWSE Single
2 02/08/1755 Thomas HIDDEN Single Hungerford, Berkshire Rebecca BIRKS Single
3 24/02/1756 John ELWOOD Single Eleanor THACKER Widow
4 14/11/1757 Martin TRAVIS Single Elizabeth SHARP Single
5 19/10/1758 John SKELTON Single Mary BEE Single
6 19/09/1759 William RICHARDSON Single Mary COOKE Single
7 12/05/1763 Thomas KIRK Single Ann WRIGHT Single
8 08/04/1765 George BICKERDIKE Single Elizabeth WRIGHT Single
9 15/05/1766 Joseph BARKER Single Edlington Mary DOWSE Single
10 07/10/1766 John THOMPSON Single Rosamond BLOW Single
11 02/02/1768 John TROWLOP Widower Mareham Le Fen Ann KERMEN
12 19/04/1768 Abraham BIRKS Single Sarah OVERTON Horncastle
13 12/05/1768 Edward MARSHALL Single Wispington Ann SCOTT Single
14 05/03/1770 Benjamin HARTLEY Single Mary JOBSON Widow
15 06/08/1772 Robert BARKER Single Thimbleby Martha SEAMON Single
16 15/04/1773 John GIBBONS Single Frances BUTTERS Single
17 14/07/1773 Thomas BELL Single Horncastle Mary HURTON Single
18 27/07/1773 Thomas HURTON Single Elizabeth COOK Single
19 23/09/1773 James CLARK Widower Elizabeth COVEL Widow
20 12/10/1775 Thomas RATCLIFFE Widower Hull, Yorkshire Mary HARTLEY Widow
21 07/04/1777 William FISHER Single Susannah PILKINGTON Widow
22 04/06/1778 Thurrold LEGGATE Single Eleanor PARKINSON Single Horncastle
23 29/06/1779 John PORTER Single Moorby Sarah COOK Single
24 20/07/1779 John GRAVES Widower Susannah ROBINSON Widow
25 04/03/1783 William BENNET Widower Ann PARKINSON Single
26 14/07/1783 Richard PICKET Single Mary CLARK Single Coningsby
27 26/08/1783 Thomas MICHAEL Widower Ann COOKE Widow
28 30/12/1783 Thomas SKELTON Single Boston Mary Newton MOORE Single
29 02/05/1786 George ADCOCK Single Mary SKELTON Widow
30 25/05/1786 Allen SMITH Single Horncastle Dorothy TOPLISS Single
31 24/10/1786 Daniel NORTH Coningsby Mary THACKER
32 18/12/1786 William DAY Elizabeth HURTON
33 15/03/1787 John FLETCHER Rebecca PANTAN
34 24/10/1787 Thomas MITCHELL Martha DINNIS
35 04/12/1787 Edward TOPLIS Single Anne YORK
36 20/05/1788 Benjamin KNOTT Timberland Anne RICHARDSON
37 24/08/1788 George HADCOCK Elizabeth OAKS
38 13/05/1790 Thomas LOCKIN Elizabeth WRIGHTSON
39 18/05/1790 John WHATTY Mary OVERTON
40 25/05/1790 William Richard BLAGG Anne OVERTON Horncastle
41 23/06/1791 Thomas PERRIN Frances FIXTER
42 19/04/1792 Francis TINGLE Heckington Elizabeth ELMITT
43 05/08/1792 Robert HUNT Anne BUTTERS
44 18/10/1792 Thomas THACKER Kirkstead Rebecca ELLIS Blankney
45 19/05/1793 John KNOTT Mary FORMAN
46 24/06/1793 John SMITH Martin Mary OAKS
47 08/07/1793 James GILBY Mary ELY
48 24/11/1793 Richard ACRED South Somercotes Elizabeth WALKER
49 23/11/1794 John MELSON Single Sarah DAFF Single
50 18/11/1796 Richard BLOW Single Great Sturton Ann DANBY Single
51 14/08/1797 John SHOWLER Elizabeth DAFF
17/10/1797 Charles IRONMONGER Single East Kirkby Frances LADLOW Single
28/02/1798 Thomas HOGGARD Single Haltham On Bain Jane TROLLOPE Single
13/09/1798 Joseph RICHARDSON Single Mary TRUEBLOOD Single
20/05/1801 Thomas SMITH Single Thimbleby Elizabeth PANTON Single
20/07/1802 John TETHER Single Timberland Hannah LEVICK Single
13/05/1803 Southwell MARSHALL Single Sarah ROBINSON Single
27/01/1804 Henry FYNES Jane CHAPEL
02/10/1804 John TROWLOP Widower Anne HUTCHINSON Widow
14/10/1805 John MESSENGER Single Elizabeth DEANE Mareham Le Fen
04/03/1806 Joseph DRABY Single Ann DRURY Single
02/05/1806 George CLATON Mary GIBBONS
23/11/1807 John COOPER Single Martha ROBERTS Single
04/04/1809 John MARTIN Single Elizabeth MUMBY Single
31/10/1809 Thomas ASHTON Boston Susanna HEBLEWHITE
10/12/1810 Charles BONNER Single Minting Lucy TAYLOR Widow
31/12/1810 Thomas WILSON Single Mary DAY Single
1 17/05/1813 William TOPLISS Single Ann WALKER Single
2 09/12/1813 Samuel Francis MARSHALL Single Elizabeth PINDER Single
3 31/03/1814 Thomas WRATHBY Single Mary HEBBLEWHITE Single
4 03/05/1814 Thomas HEWITT Single Jane ROBERTS Single
5 30/06/1814 John HARRISON Single Maria FINES Single
6 15/05/1815 Robert MAJOR Single Martha MITCHELL Single
7 25/07/1815 James DENNIS Single Mary FAUSSETT Single
8 30/07/1816 William DUBBELS Single Mary KENT Single
9 07/04/1817 John WRIGHT Single Elizabeth ROBERTS Single
10 05/05/1817 James GRESHAM Widower Elizabeth COLE Single
11 13/05/1817 Matthew HOLLAND Single Bardney Sarah EATON Single
12 05/05/1818 Henry Fitzwilliam BAKER Rebecca TASKER Horncastle
13 09/06/1818 Christopher WRAGG Frances RILATT
14 21/07/1818 Thomas HARE Single Sarah MARTIN Single
15 29/06/1819 Thomas TOPLIS Rebecca BIRCHBY
16 24/04/1820 John NOBELS Elizabeth HUBBERT
17 08/05/1820 Edward HORSWOOD Elizabeth SMITH
18 08/08/1820 John ELSEY West Ashby Mary ADCOCK
19 17/04/1821 Thomas ATKIN Stixwold Mary THORPE
20 25/11/1823 David OLDFIELD Single Ann PARKES Single
21 11/05/1824 Joseph CROFT Single Leake Ann LOWIS Single
22 11/05/1824 William STONES Single Roughton Mary KENT Single
23 06/07/1824 John CUNINGHAM Single Driby Rebecca ORWELL Single
24 19/05/1825 Charles FYNES Single Langton Elizabeth ADCOCK Single
25 26/09/1825 Joseph SLEIGHT Single Rebecca ADCOCK Single
26 12/12/1825 William CORDY Single Ann BARRILL Single
27 20/06/1826 John CHAMBERS Single Mary Ann GOWSHALL Single
28 09/07/1827 Abraham ADCOCK Single Lavina KITCHEN Single
29 29/04/1828 Samuel WILSON Kirkstead Bridget NEEDHAM
30 25/06/1829 George CLAYTON Widower Mary HODGSON Widow
31 22/12/1829 Robert CURTIS Mary TAYLOR
32 10/05/1830 Robert THOMPSON Sarah SMITH
33 06/06/1830 Edward BROWN Martha THOMPSON
34 05/04/1831 George CROFT Ann MARSHALL
35 09/08/1831 John ESPIN Harriet KELBY
36 13/09/1831 William SICKLER Thornton Le Moor Mary NORTON
37 12/11/1832 Thomas WALTERS Ann FIXTER
38 13/02/1834 George FENICK Sarah LUDLOW
39 08/07/1834 Isaac MATLEY Kirkby On Bain Harriett WARRINDER
40 28/07/1834 Benjamin ELKINTON Elizabeth ESPIN
41 10/02/1835 Charles ROBERTS Jane BELLAMY
42 17/05/1835 Charles KEAL Anne GOY
43 19/05/1835 William ESPIN Sarah DAVEY
44 01/10/1835 Cook Gee HARDY Edlington Keturah Jane HUBBARD
45 20/03/1837 John GRESSWELL Elizabeth BAILDON
46 29/06/1837 William IRESON Maria DIXON

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