East Bilney St Mary

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

The Parish

The parish of East Bilney lies almost centrally within Norfolk being located about 5 miles north of the market town of East Dereham. East Bilney is a small and scattered settlement which sits on, and east of, the B1146 road which connects East Dereham with Fakenham. East Bilney has a small presence on the B1146 but mostly consists of a scatter of farms and cottages across the parish. East Bilney was, and largely still is, a farming parish with much of the ecreage set to arable farming. East BIlney is drained eastwards by the Black Water which runs the short distance to join the River Wensum, thence through the city of Norwich, joining the Yare and reaching the North Sea through the port of Great Yarmouth. East Bilney is sited at around 50 metres above the sea in very gentle terrain, other than in the river valley local heights remain at this height or barely rise a further 10 metres. East Bilney was a tiny parish in a county where parishes are generally small it was still one of the smallest rural parishes, covering just under 500 acres it would have supported just 200 parishioners. East Bilney is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book.

The Church

St Mary's church sits towards the east of the parish on the western side of Fludge's Lane. Sadly there is little of this church remaining from the medieval period. Both northern and southern doorways are original and carry an approximate date of 1300, a date consistent with the earliest part of the Decorated style. The largest medieval piece is the western tower, a typical example of 14th century Norfolk Perpendicular. Even with this early origin the tower was restored in 1880 and given a new bell stage above the original one which stands behind the twin lancet windows. The chancel was rebuilt in 1883 and many features of the remainder of the church also date from this period. Fludge's Lane is narrow and bordered by vast cereal fields but the church has a welcome area for parking in a U shape at the entrance, the church, itself, is set well back from the lane at the far end of a long, thin churchyard, fortunately it is wide enough for adequate angles for photography.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	14th April 1754 - 3rd June 1754	Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD194/1	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	17th May 1757 - 6th January 1812	Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD194/3	Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page	Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads	None
3	28th November 1814 - 20th June 1837	Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD194/4	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 on one or two misreads

Stanfield St Margaret	Brisley St Bartholomew	Brisley St Bartholomew
Stanfield St Margaret		North Elmham St Mary the Virgin
Mileham St John the Baptist	Beetley St Mary Magdalene	Beetley St Mary Magdalene

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
	14/04/1754	John	MASON	Single		Elizabeth	WARD	Single
	18/04/1754	Robert	WEELS	Single		Alice	ALCOCK	Single
	03/06/1754	Thomas	GARNER	Single		Jane	FREIZER	Single
1	17/05/1757	Philip	BEESTON	Widower	Mileham	Mary	NICHOLAS	Single
	21/09/1757	Philip	ARMES	Single		Elizabeth	GOODMAN	Single
	23/11/1758	Nathaniel	VINCENT	Single		Anne	GATES	Single
	26/11/1758	William	MEAPS	Single		Anne	GOOSE	Single
	01/08/1759	John	GOODWIN	Single		Margaret	SNELLING	Single
	24/04/1760	John	HOPKINS	Single		Rose	BUNKELL	Single
	24/11/1760	John	GIBSON	Single	Beeston	Sarah	POWLEY	Single
	28/12/1760	Roger	GOUT	Single		Mary	BANES	Single
	28/05/1761	John	BONE	Single	East Dereham	Anne	MARGETSON
	12/10/1761	John	ALCOCK	Single		Margaret	HOMES	Single
11	01/06/1762	Thomas	TUCK	Single		Sarah	BROWN	Single
12	11/10/1762	Matthew	MATTHEWS	Single		Mary	PATRICK	Single
13	19/10/1762	John	BENNINGTON		Gressenhall	Margaret	PATRICK
14	26/11/1763	Richard	BROWN	Single	Swaffham	Elizabeth	RAVEN	Single
15	07/05/1764	Richard	FARRER	Single	Gressenhall	Sarah	BECKHAM	Single
16	23/10/1764	John	MASON	Widower		Anne	GREEN	Widow
17	07/12/1764	William	ARUNDEL	Widower		Martha	BELWARD	Widow
18	22/01/1765	John	COOK	Single		Anne	GOSHAWK	Single
19	11/08/1765	Francis	JOHNSON	Single		Mary	GRIFFIN	Single
20	01/12/1766	William	HUNTER	Widower	East Dereham	Martha	ARUNDEL	Widow
21	26/09/1769	William	COLBY	Single	West Rudham	Lidia	COKER	Single
22	08/10/1769	William	BARNES	Single		Frances	RUST	Single
23	10/10/1769	Robert	BOBBIN		North Elmham	Elizabeth	BARRET
24	17/10/1769	William	GERRARD	Single	Beeston	Mary	BELWARD	Single
25	04/05/1771	Robert	HALL	Single		Lydia	SMITH	Single
26	07/07/1771	Robert	BAILEY	Single		Sarah	BLYTH	Single
27	28/10/1771	Thomas	GRIFFIN	Single		Mary	GATES	Single
28	12/12/1771	John	WINGFIELD	Single	Brisley	Elizabeth	SHEPPARD	Single
29	03/03/1772	Samuel	FRANKLIN	Widower		Alice	BRADFIELD	Widow
30	09/06/1772	William	TAYLOR	Single	Swaffham	Mary	MONEY	Single
31	04/11/1772	James	SMITH	Widower		Ellen	FOX	Widow	Hoe
32	20/06/1773	John	SMITH	Single		Anne	GRIFFIN	Single
33	21/10/1774	John	STANFORD	Single	Great Fransham	Elizabeth	GOOLD	Single
34	20/02/1775	James	WARD	Single		Anne	GOOSE	Single
35	31/07/1775	Edward	WOLSEY		Beeston	Sarah	SMITH
36	17/10/1775	John	SMITH	Single		Elizabeth	NEALE	Single
37	17/10/1775	John	GOSHAWK	Single		Dorothy	SMITH	Single
38	13/11/1775	John	GOODMAN		Gateley	Lydia	BRADFIELD
39	14/10/1776	John	SWINGEL	Single		Sarah	GOSHAWK	Single
40	10/02/1777	Thomas	FOX	Single		Anne	RUSSELS	Single
41	17/12/1777	James	GUYMER	Single	Wood Norton	Jane	GREEN	Single
41	27/10/1778	James	SMITH	Single		Esther	NEALE	Single
42	19/11/1778	Henry	NEALE		Horningtoft	Elizabeth	WINFIELD
43	26/12/1778	John	ROYAL	Single		Sarah	BAYLEY	Widow
44	07/03/1779	John	HALL	Single	Thuxton	Mary	GURSACK
45	05/10/1779	James	SMYTH	Widower		Jane	GRIFFIN	Widow
46	05/11/1779	Jhonathan	SHEPPARD	Widower		Alice	CROSSLEY	Widow
47	19/06/1782	Richard	BULLMAN	Single		Ann	SMITH	Single
48	09/06/1783	James	SPENCER	Single	Gateley	Naomi	GOOSE	Single
49	27/10/1783	Francis	DACK	Single		Frances	GRASSHAWK	Single
50	17/12/1784	Jonathan	SHEPARD	Widower		Mary	JACKSON	Widow
51	19/06/1785	John	SMITH	Widower		Mary	JEMPSON	Widow
52	07/06/1786	Robert	GOSSHAWK	Single		Mary	BURGESS	Single
53	11/08/1788	Joseph	PECK		Longham	Elizabeth	WILLIAMSON
54	09/10/1788	Thomas	DOD	Single		Sarah	SMITH	Single
55	15/12/1788	Thomas	GOOSE	Single		Anne	GRIFFIN	Single
56	30/06/1789	Charles	GAGE	Single		Sarah	BENSELY	Single
57	25/02/1793	George	SPOONER	Single		Sarah	TUCK	Single
	03/06/1794	Thomas	FREEZER	Single		Mary	SANDS	Single
59	27/10/1794	Samuel	FRANKLIN	Single		Phoebe	RUDD	Single	Brisley
60	09/12/1794	William	BLOOMFIELD	Single	Worthing	Mary	GOOSE	Single
61	15/04/1795	William	ALLISON	Single		Elizabeth	HOVELL	Single	Hoe
62	07/11/1797	William	GIBBS	Single		Mary	GOUT	Single
63	24/06/1799	John	HALL	Single		Elizabeth	MITCHELL	Single
64	27/05/1800	Michael	KETTERINGHAM	Single	Hoe	Ann	TROLLOP	Single
66	18/06/1801	William	HOWARD	Widower		Margaret	BUTCHER	Single
65	31/12/1801	Gamaliel	THOMSON	Single		Mary	BENSLEY	Single
67	02/04/1807	Samuel	COLLINS	Single	Elsing	Elizabeth	TROLLOP	Single
68	01/03/1808	William	DAVY	Single	Stanfield	Elizabeth	BULLING	Single
69	04/03/1808	William	HALL	Single		Sarah	HARRIS	Single
70	12/10/1808	William	LARGE	Single		Ellen	PHILIPPOT	Single
71	15/11/1808	John	WALPOLE	Single		Rhoda	BAKER	Single
72	06/02/1809	Robert	HARRIS	Widower		Susanna	CUBIT	Widow
73	06/01/1812	Charles	REEVE	Single		Ann	HOWES	Single
1	28/11/1814	John	HAYLETT	Single		Susanna	DACK	Single
4	06/12/1815	John	WISKARD	Single	Beeston	Hannah	WALPOLE	Single
7	12/06/1816	William	MORE	Widower		Charlotte	BAKER	Single
10	28/01/1817	Henry	SAINTY	Single	Beetley	Mary Ann	YULL	Single
11	21/04/1817	Reuben	MUFFET	Single		Mary	HOWARD	Single
12	19/06/1817	Henry	BRIDGES	Single	Beeston	Jane	WALPOLE	Single
13	02/02/1819	Edmond	WITHERS	Single		Sarah	NICHOLS	Single
14	27/03/1819	William	UTTLEY	Widower		Sarah	JOHNSON	Single
15	06/06/1819	John	STACEY	Single		Mary	CROSS	Single
16	15/08/1819	John	KING	Single		Elizabeth	WALPOLE	Single
19	02/06/1824	John	BURGESS	Single		Lydia	WALPOLE	Single
22	25/12/1825	Thomas	NEAL	Single	Yaxham	Elizabeth	BAKER	Single
23	25/12/1825	Philip	YULL	Single		Fanny	GREEN	Single
24	15/10/1826	George	COOPER	Single		Anne	GEORGE	Single
25	07/08/1828	Benjamin	WALPOLE	Single		Sarah	GEORGE	Single
26	06/11/1828	Peter	YULL	Single		Mary Anne	MUFFETT	Single
27	05/11/1829	Samuel	POTTER		Wighton	Mary	GREEN	Single
28	08/03/1831	Edward	DEARNS	Single	Outwell	Patience	YULL	Single
29	24/05/1831	James	BAILEY	Single		Rhoda	BAKER	Single
30	12/09/1832	Thomas Burnaby	DUFFIELD	Single		Alice	MUFFET	Single
31	28/03/1834	William	THOMAS	Single		Sarah	CHAMBERLIN	Single
32	25/09/1834	William	CROSS	Single	Beetley	Maria	WRIGHT	Single
33	31/03/1835	Thomas	TUCK	Widower	North Elmham	Mary	JOHNSON	Single
34	26/05/1835	George	SIMMONS	Single		Mary	TUCK	Single
35	28/09/1835	Richard	MITCHELL	Single	Hoe	Elizabeth	GOODE	Single
36	13/12/1835	Thomas	FOULSHAM	Widower		Elizabeth	HILL	Single
37	10/04/1837	John Chamberling	BULLARD	Widower		Maria	PALMER	Single
38	20/06/1837	Robert	WHISKER	Single		Jane	HALL	Single

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