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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Baconsthorpe St Mary

 

The Parish

The parish of Baconsthorpe lies in northeastern Norfolk roughly 4 miles southeast of the small market town of Holt. Baconsthorpe is a small village built around an oblong of lanes which sits a little over 2 miles south of the A148 road which connects the resort town of Cromer across northern Norfolk to the port of Kings Lynn. Baconsthorpe principal historical interest is its castle, actually a Tudor moated manor house built by the local Heydon family. Baconsthorpe like many parishes in Norfolk was largely an arable farming district, something which continues to this day. Baconsthorpe is drained by a small tributary of the infant River Glaven which is soon joined, the Glaven wraps around Holt to its south before turning northwards to reach the North Sea through the town of Cley next the Sea. Baconsthorpe has a fairly high elevation for Norfolk sitting at around 80 metres above the sea it forms the highest ground for some distance with only nearby Bodham Hill over-topping it by 10 metres. Parishes in eastern Norfolk are often fairly small in acreage and Baconsthorpe was no exception, covering only a little over 1,300 acres it would have supported a population of around 300 parishioners. In Domesday times Baconsthorpe was a tiny rural spot, held by Count Alan of Brittany it could not claim a single plough just a small meadow and a few pigs.


The Church

St Mary's church sits at the southeastern corner of Baconsthorpe's oblong of lanes on the southern side of Church Lane. Dating evidence from both chancel and piscina date the earliest parts of the church to the latter half of the 13th century showing motifs of the Early English Gothic period. The church did, however, receive a major rebuild during that great church building era of the Perpendicular and most of the remaining fabric is of the 15th century or late. Sadly the tower, whilst in that style is a rebuild, the previous incarnation having fallen in 1739, further works of the 18th century followed and were further added to in the 1860s as part of a major Victorian restoration which as well as restoring major parts of the church added the northern porch. Church Lane is narrow but has a wide verge on the church's side allowing parking. A set of wooden gates leads into the churchyard, the church is set close to the western edge of that churchyard which does inhibit the better views of that resurrected western tower.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
 9th October 1755 - 28th June 1757
 Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD334/2
 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 24th October 1758 - 12th October 1812 Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD334/3 Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads None
3 15th May 1816 - 23rd May 1837 Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD334/4 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Bodham All Saints
Bodham All Saints
Bodham All Saints
Hempstead by Holt All Saints
North Barningham St Peter
Barningham St Mary the Virgin
Hempstead by Holt All Saints
Plumstead St Michael
Plumstead St Michael

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
06/02/1754 Joseph SHEPERSON Holt Jane OLLEY
09/10/1755 John BOSTOCK Hempstead By Holt Anne BROWNE
08/09/1756 James SPENDLOVE Single Gunthorpe Elizabeth BROWN Single
07/06/1757 Thomas EVERITT Single Elizabeth FISHER Single
28/06/1757 Clark RIDER Aldborough Mary WARNS
1 24/10/1758 Francis MEANS Single Mary FISHER Single
2 28/11/1758 William DIX Single Elizabeth HILL Single
3 09/12/1759 John GRAND Widower Margaret CLAXTON Single
3 22/10/1761 William LYNN Single Mary FOX Single
4 08/02/1763 John HARVEY Single Eulalia MACK Single Hempstead By Holt
5 09/10/1764 Robert WIGGET Single Heydon Margaret SILENCE Single
6 09/10/1764 William DIBOLD Widower Heydon Anne SILENCE Single
7 19/02/1765 Robert EVERITT Single Anne FISHER Single
8 07/10/1765 Joseph GUNTON Single Mattishall Mary GATHERCOLE Single
9 16/10/1765 John STONEHAM Trimingham Martha SPURREL Single
10 10/12/1765 Thomas FIELD Single Mary FISHER
11 10/02/1766 James HEWITT Great Ryburgh Elizabeth GIRDLESTONE Single
12 03/04/1766 William DIX Widower Edna BIRD Single
13 19/05/1766 James RYE Little Barningham Hannah THAXTER Single
14 31/08/1767 Robert IVES Single Elizabeth BUNN St Michael At Plea, Norwich
15 31/07/1768 Thomas DAVISON Widower Mary HUDSON Single Bodham
16 12/10/1768 Robert FARTHING Single Hempstead By Holt Anne WEST Single
17 27/07/1769 William BIRD Single Blythe LINES Single
18 08/05/1770 Thomas BELDING St John Timberhill, Norwich Elizabeth ALLEN Widow
19 21/08/1770 Thomas HARROLD Widower Saxlingham Mary HALL Widow
20 30/08/1770 John STARLING Single Barningham Sarah COCK Single
21 11/10/1770 James WARD Single Anne AMIS Single
22 20/11/1770 Simon STARLING Single Mary LOWND Single
23 25/12/1770 Thomas FLAXMAN Single Wells Next The Sea Elizabeth FRANKLAND Single
24 12/02/1771 John WARNES Single Mary MAYES Single
25 04/10/1772 John TAYLOR Single Hempstead By Holt Amy LOADS Single
26 13/10/1772 Robert STEWARD Single Sarah FARTHING Single
27 12/11/1772 John PORRET Single Rachel STARLING Single
28 06/01/1773 William SCOTTOW Single Martha AMIS Single
29 22/04/1773 Robert MAYES Single Sarah CLARKE Single
30 15/09/1775 William BROOKE Single Kirby Bedon Elizabeth GIRDLESTONE Single
31 25/12/1775 Hall BIRCHAM Single Lydia MASSINGHAM Single
32 20/02/1776 Richard FRANKLAND Single Mary PEARSON Single
33 21/11/1776 William ALLEN Single Sarah SPENDLOVE Single
34 02/12/1776 John WARNS Widower Mary KEYBORNE Single
35 12/01/1778 George WEGG Single Susanna WILKEN Single
36 16/09/1779 John GIRDLESTONE Single Kelling Sarah WARD Single
37 23/09/1779 Robert BULFILLY Single Mary CHAPMAN Single
38 04/11/1779 Robert GALLANT Single Mary WALKER Single
39 04/11/1779 Thomas FISHER Widower Frances YOUNGMAN Single
40 13/06/1780 Robert SCOTT Widower Felmingham Susannah JARY Widow
41 07/09/1781 Robert PEGG Widower Mary PALMER Single
42 10/12/1781 John JOY Single Sarah WILLSON Single
43 26/08/1782 John DAGLASS Single Margaret WALKER Single
44 18/02/1783 Nicholas THAXTER Widower Barningham Mary GRAND Single
45 13/10/1783 John SAUNDERS Single Martha HEAD Single Bodham
46 23/10/1783 William CHRISTOPHER Single Elizabeth HALL Single Plumstead
47 25/11/1783 Philip CRANEFIELD Single Maria PAUL Single
48 16/12/1784 William GRAND Single Abigail WILLSON Single
49 03/11/1785 Epher SILENCE Widower Susanna FISHER Widow
50 03/11/1785 John COBB Widower Holt Elizabeth DIBLE Single
51 10/11/1785 Edmund ELDRIGE Single Elizabeth BASTARD Single
52 29/05/1787 John FORD Single Edgefield Elizabeth CLETHERWOOD Single
53 19/06/1787 John HARVEY Widower Foxley Elizabeth MASSINGHAM Single
54 11/10/1787 John MASSINGHAM Single Elizabeth LEAK Single
55 29/11/1787 Whitaker Robert GUNTON Single Matlaske Elizabeth PANK Single
56 10/01/1788 John HOOK Single Wickmere Frances BUNN Single
57 27/07/1789 James PEGG Single Elizabeth CHAPLIN Single
58 22/09/1789 Anthony TAYLOR Widower Gorleston, Suffolk Ann HEADLEY Widow
59 31/12/1789 Andrew FORD Single Holt Mary CLETHERWOOD Single
60 23/09/1790 John SMITH Single Susanna GARNETT Single Erpingham
61 03/01/1791 John FISHER Single Mary ALLEN Single Hempstead By Holt
62 05/01/1791 Henry MUSSETT Single Sustead Elizabeth WARD Single
63 24/01/1791 James HORNE Single Plumstead Sarah PEGG Single
64 01/11/1791 William PASSON Single Elizabeth ELDRIDGE Widow
65 01/11/1791 Robert GOODENS Single Heydon Sarah REYNOLDS Single
66 03/04/1792 William SCOTT Single Hempstead By Holt Amey SPURRELL Single
67 10/06/1794 John SPURRELL Single Deborah MEANS Single
68 02/10/1794 Thomas SILENCE Single Mary FISHER Single
69 07/10/1794 Robert SMITH Single Mary JACKSON Single
70 27/10/1794 Thomas SCOTT Single Bawdeswell Abigail SPURRELL Single
71 06/04/1795 William DENNY Single Martha SAUNDERS Widow
72 13/10/1795 Robert HARRISON Single Mary SMITH Single
73 28/01/1796 Somers CLARKE Single Anne Dorothy ELWIN Single
74 14/06/1796 Francis SOUTHGATE Widower Wells Next The Sea Hannah SPRINGALL Single
75 17/11/1796 William SCARF Single Ann EVERITT Single
76 09/10/1797 James THOMPSON Single Anne HARLING Single
77 07/12/1797 James SHIRLEY Single Thornage Mary SPRINGALL Single
78 12/02/1798 John HAZLEWOOD Widower Elizabeth SCARFE Single
79 08/10/1799 Peter WILSON Single Easter Ann SILENCE Single
80 05/11/1799 James BRETT Single Sarah WARD Single
81 19/12/1799 James GOODWIN Widower Plumstead Phillis FRANKLAND Single
82 13/10/1800 Edward ALLCOCK Single Hardingham Anne SOUTHGATE Single
83 22/03/1803 George PYGALL Single Sarah HARMER Single
84 03/10/1803 William TAYLOR Single Anne PURDY Single
85 04/10/1803 James BURTON Single Matlaske Elizabeth MEANS Single
86 18/10/1803 Robert WEGG Single Phillis FRANKLAND Single
87 14/11/1803 William CRASP Single Alby Sarah ADAMS Single
88 10/06/1804 David DAVISON Single Itteringham Mary WILSON Single
89 10/12/1805 John AMISS Single Jane WALKER Single
90 01/03/1808 William KEYMER Single Holt Sarah WARNS Single
91 07/06/1808 William HOPPER Single Bodham Elizabeth WILSON Single
92 11/04/1809 Barnabas FIELD Single Matlaske Lydia WARD Single
93 23/01/1810 Peter RAYNER Single St George In The East, Middlesex Mary TWISS Single
94 27/02/1810 George EVERITT Single Mary THOMPSON Single Plumstead
95 19/06/1810 Robert TWISS Single Phillis EMERY Widow
96 29/07/1810 Jeremiah BLYTHE Single Mary LONG Single Hindolveston
97 28/05/1811 Marker FISHER Single Cawston Ann Reed ISAACS Single
98 15/10/1811 Thomas PURDY Single Sarah LEAK Single
99 28/01/1812 William MEANS Single Mary WARNS Single
100 08/10/1812 James RUMP Single Hempstead By Holt Elizabeth FISHER Single
101 12/10/1812 Jacob Henry Brooke MOUNTAIN Single Scotton, Lincolnshire Frances Mingay BROOKE Single
1 15/05/1816 John BUMFRY Single Ann MOORE Single Sheringham
2 15/11/1816 David BIX Single Anne HARRISON Single
3 13/02/1817 John FROST Single Sustead Ann WARNES Single
4 12/10/1817 George PIGGOTT Single Martha EVERITT Single
5 23/03/1818 Robert SPENCE Single Elizabeth CHRISTOPHER Single
6 11/05/1818 Joseph SPRINGALL Single Mary MAYES Single
7 02/03/1819 John WHITING Single Elizabeth Ann WILSON Single
8 15/09/1819 John DAWSON Single Ann GRIMES Single
9 14/10/1819 George TUCK Single Esther FISHER Single
10 05/12/1819 John ENGLISH Widower Mary BLADE Single
11 13/02/1820 Philip SPINK Single Cley Next The Sea Alice TAYLOR Single
12 11/11/1821 John BIRCHAM Single Ann TAYLOR Single
13 06/12/1821 Peter JOY Single Abigail GRAND Single
14 27/05/1822 James BUMFRY Single Ann BIRD Single Hempstead By Holt
15 07/07/1822 Thomas POTTER Single Elizabeth BLIGH Single Bodham
16 15/08/1822 Robert COBON Single Elizabeth SILENCE Single
17 04/08/1823 John ENGLISH Widower Ann SMITH Single
18 07/11/1824 John HAZLEWOOD Single Charlotte SMITH Single Hackford By Reepham
19 17/11/1825 John HARRISON Single Phoebe RICHES Single
20 06/10/1826 George WARD Single Elizabeth SWEATMAN Single Hackford By Reepham
21 12/10/1826 James HAZLEWOOD Single Mary NEALE Single Plumstead
22 20/03/1827 Robert HARRISON Single Phoebe HODGE Single
23 11/10/1827 Samuel WARNER Widower Rebecca BROWNE Single Hempstead By Holt
24 22/01/1828 Thomas EVERITT Single Hempstead By Holt Mary ADAMS Single
25 12/03/1828 Joseph BURTON Single Cawston Hannah WARD Single
26 08/05/1829 Robert WARD Single Mary WILSON Single
27 13/10/1829 Peter EKE Single Margaret BUMFREY Single
28 27/10/1829 James OTTY Single Hempstead By Holt Eliza CURSON Single
29 01/11/1829 Benjamin DALE Single Sarah BIRD Single
30 12/10/1830 John TICE Single Alice CLAXON Single
31 28/11/1831 Samuel EARLE Widower Alice SPINK Widow
31 28/11/1831 Samuel EARLE Widower Alice GOLDSMITH Widow
32 30/11/1831 William ROBINSON Widower Mary CROWE Single
33 12/01/1832 John DOUGHTY Widower Sheringham Sarah DEW Widow
34 10/04/1832 Samuel WARNER Single Mary FOX Single
35 02/09/1832 William PRATT Widower Mundesley Sarah Faith BUTTERFIELD Single
36 18/09/1832 John WHITE Single Anna Maria CLARKE Holt
37 08/11/1832 Simon JORDAN Single Ann WHITE Single
38 04/12/1832 Edmund KNIGHTS Single Susan TOMPSON Single
39 24/07/1833 John HOPPER Single Bodham Mary FISHER Single
40 05/12/1833 John LEACH Single Holt Eliza OLDMAN Single
40 05/12/1833 John LEACH Single Holt Eliza KING Single
41 08/09/1834 Thomas DAVISON Single Wickmere Susanna ALDRIDGE Single
42 21/11/1834 Benjamin MOORE Single Harriet HARRISON Single
43 01/01/1835 James SILENCE Single Mary COOPER Single
44 29/01/1835 William SIDNEY Single Brinton Frances WARD Single
45 10/11/1835 Philip RICHES Widower Plumstead Mary WHITE Single
46 31/03/1836 Robert COOPER Single Martha PIGG Single
47 22/06/1836 Robert FISHER Single Frances NELSON Single
48 29/09/1836 Robert BAVERS Single Bodham Ursula THAXTER Widow
49 06/11/1836 John ABRAHAM Single Mary WARD Single
50 13/11/1836 John ROWE Single Frances NURSE Single
51 24/11/1836 George WARD Widower Elizabeth COHEN Widow
52 23/05/1837 Richard SILENCE Single Mary QUADLING Single

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