England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Great Ellingham lies in south central Norfolk about 2 miles northwest of the market town of Attleborough. Great Ellingham sits on the B1077 road which connects Attleborough with Watton. Great Ellingham is a large village with most properties lying either on or south of the B1077. Like most parishes in Norfolk Great Ellingham was a farming community and dominated by arable farming, today the main crops are cereals, beet and oil seed. Estimated acreage showed that 80% of parish land in the 1830s was arable with small pastures along the watercourses. Great Ellingham is drained southwards by small feeder streams to the infant River Thet, this turns westwards and heads through The Fens joining the Great Ouse to reach the North Sea through The Wash. Great Ellingham is sited at around 50 metres above the sea in fairly gentle terrain, land rises gently to the west to local heights barely 10 metres higher. Great Ellingham parish was on the large side for its area, as merited the large village size, it covered almost 2,700 acres and would have supported a population of just over 800 parishioners. In Domesday times Great Ellingham was shared between Hermer de Ferrers and Ralph de Beaufour, collectively their holdings came to 9 ploughs together with meadows and woodlands making for a middling sort of place. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 23rd April 1754 - 15th December 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/609/4 | 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 |
2 | 8th January 1813 - 26th June 1837 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/609/5 | 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 | Poor handwriting within this register may lead to one or two misreads |
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Ellingham St Peter
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Hingham St
Andrew
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Deopham
St Andrew
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Rockland All
Saints & St Andrew
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Attleborough
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Rockland
All Saints & St Andrew
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Attleborough
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Attleborough
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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