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& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Wyham, which includes the former medieval parish of Cadeby, lies in northeastern Lincolnshire roughly 7 miles north of the market town of Louth. Both settlements are deserted medieval villages with no modern village at all. Cadeby has merely its 18th century hall and a farm or two, whilst Wyham, at least, retains a few more properties. Both former villages sit about a half mile west of the A18 road which connects Louth with Brigg, Cadeby being a mile to the north of Wyham. It is believed that both lost their populations as a result of the Black Death. Both settlements sit on the eastern edge of Lincolnshire's Wolds, the A18 marking the boundary between these low hills and the coastal plain. Like most Lincolnshire parishes the area is totally farmed as arable, mainly cereals. Small streams drain off the Wolds onto the coastal plains where man has much modified the drainage, water is channeled to the North Sea arriving through Tetney Lock. Wyham is sited at around 70 metres above the sea with Cadeby 20 metres lower, to the west land rises steadily onto the Wolds with local heights of 131 metres reached in a couple of miles. The combined parish was fairly typically sized for the area, covering close to 1,400 acres it would have supported a population of around 100 parishioners. In Domesday times Cadeby was held by Count Alan of Brittany and offered just 3 ploughs whilst Wyham, shared between Ivo Tallboys and the Bishop of Lincoln held 6 ploughs and the usual meadows and woodland. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 23rd November 1756 - 27th February 1808 | At the date of transcription the register had not been deposited - film & digitised copies are available from a prior loan | 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 | 7th November 1816 - 19th October 1835 | Lincolnshire Archives - Reference - WYHAM CUM CADEBY PAR/1/4 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Hawerby cum Beesby St Margaret
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Hawerby cum Beesby St Margaret
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Thoresby St Helen
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Ludborough
St Mary
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