England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Paddington St James lies in southern central Middlesex not too far from its border with the city of London. Paddington is located about 1 mile west of the city of London and in the northern portion of territory within the wider city of Westminster. Paddington sits on the route of the A40 as its leaves central London headed for Oxford. It is difficult, viewing present day Paddington, to imagine this area as it was at the start of this transcript period. In the 1750s Paddington was a small discrete village separated by fields from the western edge of Metropolitan London, marked by the Tyburn gallows and the Edgware Road. Even by the 1820s Paddington was still a separate village albeit much enlarged. Development of this area began in earnest in the 1820s and was accelerated by the construction of a canal from Paddington Basin linking up with the Grand Union Canal at Uxbridge. Further developments came when Paddington was chosen as the terminus for Brunel's Great Western Railway, a role for which it is, perhaps, best known today. Today's Paddington in an integral part of inner London, a maze of property intersected by canal, railway and modern communications, the 1960s project of Westway, a lengthy overpass attempting to ease the movement of traffic westwards by elevating it above street level, a notable feature of the area. Today's Paddington sits surrounded by many of London's highlights, Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park and Regent's Park lie close by as green lungs whilst Lord's cricket ground, Madame Tussauds and the Stardome lie close by for entertainment. Paddington is drained by mostly sub-surface drainage, the Thames lying around 3 miles to its south takes that water to the North Sea. Paddington sits upon one the former river terraces of the Thames at around 30 metres above the sea, land continues to rise northwards, away from the river, reaching just over 70 metres at nearby Hampstead Heath. Paddington parish was typically sized for a rural lowland parish, covering just over 1,200 acres, like many in Greater London it was split down to several smaller parishes during the Victorian era, within that small acreage a population would have grown exponentially from around 2,000 to approaching 25,000 by the end of this transcript period. Paddington is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 4th July 1754 - 27th November 1792 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/012 | 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 | 29th November 1792 - 29th December 1812 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/013 | 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 |
3 | 11th January 1813 - 5th December 1819 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/014 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 9th December 1819 - 7th May 1824 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/015 | 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 | A single clerk from the team has poor handwriting making for a possibility of a few misreads |
5 | 9th May 1824 - 25th February 1828 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/016 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 27th February 1828 - 27th June 1832 |
London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/017 | 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 | Sporadic poor handwriting may lead to one or two misreads |
7 | 30th June 1832 - 9th November 1834 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/018 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | This register is blighted by tiny and poor handwriting which is
exacerbated at times by fading, some entries are barely readable and
are pure guesswork. It is expected that misreads will be present and
there could be quite a few. |
8 | 9th November 1834 - 26th December 1836 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/019 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None |
9 | 27th December 1836 - 29th June 1837 | London Metropolitan Archives - Reference - P87/JS/020 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Willesden
St Mary
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Willesden
St Mary
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St John
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Kensington
St Mary Abbots
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Kensington
St Mary Abbots
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Paddington
St John the Baptist
Westminster St Margaret |
Westminster
St George Hanover Sq
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