England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of St Nicholas, King's Lynn occupies the northern portion of the market town & port, technically St Nicholas was a chapel of ease rather than a parish in ecclesiastical terms. King's Lynn sits in western Norfolk at the mouth of the River Great Ouse roughly 44 miles west of the city of Norwich and some 97 miles north of London. King's Lynn sits on the route of the A47 road which crosses the county from west to east connecting King's Lynn with both Norwich and also with its eastern port of Great Yarmouth. King's Lynn acquired its royal prefix as a result of Henry VIII's monastic changes, acquiring royal control of what before had been known as Lynn Epicopi. Medieval King's Lynn occupied a small area of the eastern bank of the Great Ouse, protected to the east by a town wall complete with 9 bastions. In 1146 new lands were exploited to the north a the Purfleet, which once formed the northern boudary, these lands being appropriated as St Nicholas. King's Lynn has two distinctive roles within its county, besides functioning as the principal market town for western Norfolk, offering the usual market and specialist trades unable to be supported in villages, King's Lynn is a major port, and was once of national importance for that role. The trade with near Europe, dominated by importation of timber from Scandinavia and wine & brandy from France and Iberia, was augmented by export of the region's rich agricultural produce as well as the product of the area's rich weaving tradition. King's Lynn was also a centre for fishing, at one time it also had a whaling fleet, and the local area of The Wash abounded with shrimp & other shell-fisheries too. King's Lynn's importance as a port faded in time, largely due to the difficulties of maintaining a channel with constantly shifting sands around The Wash requiring extensive dredging, today King's Lynn remains a small port and an important market with light industry supporting many too. The town has expanded greatly in modern times becoming contiguous with the villages of North Wootton and Gaywood into an area encompassing ove 4 miles from north to south. Major developments have come to King's Lynn, a railway connection to London being an early improvement, the former Midland & Great Northern line cross-county to Norwich, has disappeared and west of the town it now forms the route of the A17, Washway. As King's Lynn sits at the confluence of not only the Great Ouse but also the Nar it is drained the short distance to the North Sea through The Wash. Virtually all of the town lies lower than the 10 metres contour, much at sea-level, itself, inland the land rises only gently to local heights of still lower than 20 metres within a couple of miles. St Nicholas chapel's area of influence covered the north of the town and was a mere few blocks of densely packed streets within which a substantial population of more than 2,000 would have resided. In Domesday times King's Lynn was already a substantial settlement, shared by no fewer than 5 landholders it could offer just 5 ploughs but had an impressive 10 salt-houses, a mark of its importance as a port even in those early days |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
16th April 1754 - 26th June 1771 |
Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD39/96 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
None |
2 | 7th July 1771 - 27th October 1785 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD39/97 | 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 | 7th November 1785 - 24th November 1801 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD39/98 | 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 |
4 | 7th December 1801 - 25th December 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD39/99 | 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 |
5 | 18th January 1813 - 23rd November 1828 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD39/100 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 23rd November 1828 - 28th June 1837 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD39/101 | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard in not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Poor handwriting at times within this register may result in one or two misreads |
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South
Wootton St Mary
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Gaywood
St Faith
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Gaywood
St Faith
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Kings
Lynn St Margaret
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Kings
Lynn St Margaret
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