Rushall St Mary

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

The Parish

The parish of Rushall lies in the extreme south of Norfolk quite close to its border with neighbouring Suffolk. Rushall lies in lanes about 3 miles west of the market town of Harleston. Rushall is a small settlement with no distinct village as such, merely a scatter of farms and cottages grouped loosely around church & hall. Rushall is located about 2 miles east of the A140 road which connects Norwich with Ipswich and east of the large village of Dickleburgh The area would have largely been used for arable farming at the time of this transcript and little has changed today. Rushall is drained by numerous brooks and manmade channels which are headed westwards and then south to reach the River Waveney, thence eastwards to the North Sea through the port of Great Yarmouth. Rushall is sited at around 40 metres above the sea, the broad valley of the waveney starts to form just south of the parish. The parish was relatively small even by Norfolk standards, it covered barely 1,000 acres and supported about 260 parishioners. In Domesday times Rushall was shared three ways, the King & one Ranulf Peverel held the major shares whilst a small portion was in the hands of one Robert son of Corbucion, Rushall was still a small place offering 7 ploughs as well as woodland and meadows with a string of counted animals of various kinds.

The Church

St Mary's church sits just south of the main lane from Dickleburgh to Harleston on the western side of Langmere Road. The church carries a round western tower which is normally indicative of an early if not Saxon building. Here Pevsner is hesitant granting it as Saxon with a question mark. The building is still old for Norfolk in having a chancel in the early English style of the early 13th century but much else is Perpendicular and 15th century including the polygonal top portion of the tower. The church would appear to have largely escaped the attentions of the Victorian restorers. There is a large parking area at the entrance from Langmere Road and a shaded wooden gate grants access to the hedged churchyard. There are quite a few trees but they are largely not interfering with photographic angles.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	15th July 1755 - 19th September 1810	Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/151/4	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	10th October 1814 - 1st November 1836	Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/151/5	Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register	Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads	None

Dickleburgh All Saints	Pulham St Mary the Virgin Pulham Market St Mary Magdalene	Pulham St Mary the Virgin
Dickleburgh All Saints		Needham St Peter
Thorpe Abbotts All Saints	Brockdish St Peter & St Paul	Needham St Peter

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
1	15/07/1755	Thomas	MULLENGER	Single		Mary	COLE	Single
2	09/12/1755	Robert	PAKE	Single	Pulham	Elizabeth	BRITING	Single
3	01/11/1756	John	JAMES	Single		Mary	EMMERY	Single
4	28/06/1757	Robert	SMYTH	Single	Oakley, Suffolk	Mary	FOULGER	Single
5	13/10/1760	Edmund	MILLS	Single		Rebecca	PALMER	Single
6	26/10/1760	John	ELLIS		Starston	Ann	BRITON
7	27/04/1761	John	MARJORAM		Starston	Martha	PARTRIDGE
8	28/07/1762	William	HAMLING			Mary	MILLS
9	11/10/1762	Robert	NUN			Hannah	JULER
10	13/03/1764	James	SAGSBY		Levington, Suffolk	Mary	CLARKE
11	15/10/1764	Thomas	CATON	Single		Ruth	SAWEN	Single
12	02/11/1764	William	TAYLOR	Single	Eye, Suffolk	Susanna	HOLMES	Single
13	16/10/1765	John	GOWING	Single	Dickleburgh	Ann	CUNNINGHAM	Single
14	17/11/1765	Thomas	DAINS	Widower		Susan	GOLDSMITH	Widow
15	01/10/1766	John	GOOCH	Single		Mary	LEMON	Single
16	20/12/1767	James	MILLS	Single		Elizabeth	JOHNSON	Single
17	10/10/1768	Samuel	PEARSE	Single		Ann	MILLS	Single
18	06/11/1768	John	MAYOR	Single		Elizabeth	MILLS	Single
19	21/01/1769	John	CUNNINGHAM	Single		Diana	YOWEL	Single
20	24/04/1769	Benjamin	BUXTON	Single		Jemima	SADD	Single	Redenhall
21	25/09/1769	John	JAMES	Single		Sarah	GRYCE	Single
22	29/11/1769	Stephen	ALDING	Single	Great Yarmouth	Ann	GOOCH	Single
23	17/04/1770	William	DEAL	Single		Mary	RIVETT	Single
24	08/04/1771	Charles	ANNIS	Single	East Harling	Sarah	LEMON	Single
25	10/10/1771	Isaac	CLARKE	Widower		Ruth	HINES	Single
26	24/03/1772	Christopher	COLLS	Single		Mary	GOLDSPINK	Single
27	14/07/1772	Thomas	JOHNSON	Widower		Mary	GOOCH	Single
28	01/12/1772	Thomas	BRADY	Single		Tabitha	JOHNSON	Single
29	10/11/1774	John	BROOKES	Single		Elizabeth	BRIGHTING	Single
30	23/01/1775	Joseph	EASTO	Single		Mary	CUNNINGHAM	Single
31	30/09/1775	Peter	EMMS	Widower		Mary	SCARNELL	Single
32	19/11/1776	Edward	PALMER	Single		Susanna	PALMER	Single
33	31/01/1777	Jonas	SHIBLEY	Single		Sarah	MULLENGER	Single
34	11/02/1777	Timothy	HOWES	Widower	Pulham	Rebecca	RANT	Widow
35	22/04/1777	Isaac	YOUELL	Single		Mary	MILLS	Single
36	21/10/1777	James	BRADY	Single		Ann	GARDINER	Single
37	23/06/1778	Richard	VALIANT	Single		Susana	GOLDSPINK	Single
38	19/11/1778	James	BRITAIN	Single		Mary	HARVEY	Single
39	24/11/1778	William	FLESBUND	Single		Lydia	MILLS	Single
40	02/12/1782	Edmund	THROWER	Single		Sarah	SAXBY	Single
41	21/04/1783	Joseph	CATCHPOLE	Widower		Elizabeth	MOYSE	Widow
42	28/03/1784	John	SHEPPARD	Widower		Ann	BRADY	Single
43	11/04/1786	Pettit	ALDOUS	Single		Phoebe	JOHNSON	Single
44	18/04/1786	John	CULHAM	Single		Elizabeth	PALMER	Single
45	11/05/1786	Samuel	CHILVERS	Single	Thorpe Abbotts	Dorcas	LEMMON	Single
46	02/08/1786	Richard	SAXBY	Widower		Martha	MARGRUM	Widow
47	29/06/1789	Daniel	MORLEY	Widower		Priscilla	STAFF	Single
48	14/10/1793	Thomas	HOWES	Single		Sarah	TAYLOR	Single
49	23/06/1794	John	NUNN	Single		Susanna	SPARKS	Single
50	01/12/1794	John	CULHAM	Widower		Susan	BLOIS	Single
51	22/01/1796	James	CATCHPOLE	Single		Sarah	COB	Single
52	02/12/1796	Thomas	MILLS	Single		Lucy	EMMES	Single
53	29/09/1797	Stephen	JAMES	Single		Ann	BATLEY	Single
54	24/07/1798	Thomas	SMITH	Single		Dinah	CUNNINGHAM	Widow
55	06/09/1798	Christopher	BUSH	Single		Mary	BATLEY	Single
56	07/03/1799	James	LONG	Widower		Elizabeth	TAYLOR	Single
57	21/03/1799	Joseph	SMITH	Single		Elizabeth	BRADY	Single
58	07/05/1799	Michael	PAKE	Single		Leah	KNIGHTS	Single
59	07/05/1799	George	PAKE	Single		Elizabeth	SAWEN	Single
60	15/10/1799	Charles	PAKE	Single		Mary	BARKER	Single
61	08/05/1800	James	MULLENGER	Single		Abigail	PALMER	Single
62	25/05/1801	William	PEARCE	Single		Sarah	SHIBLEY	Single
63	08/10/1801	Edmund	WOOLTORTON	Widower	Howe	Jeronima	BROWN	Single
64	22/12/1801	Benjamin	NUNN	Single		Anne	PERSS	Single
65	30/09/1802	Thomas	MILLS	Widower		Sarah	PUNT	Single
67	02/12/1802	William	BARKER	Single		Susan	GOOCH	Single
68	06/01/1803	John	PALMER	Single		Hannah	BARKER	Single
69	15/02/1803	Francis	HUGMAN	Single		Elizabeth	LEIST	Single
70	25/07/1803	Robert	HALES	Widower		Eleanor	MARGRUM	Single
71	13/10/1803	James	YOUELL	Single		Anne	TAYLOR	Single
73	09/01/1804	Zachery	DIXON	Single	Dickleburgh	Mary	BRIGHTON	Single
74	17/01/1805	Benjamin	NUNN	Widower		Sarah	SHARMAN	Single
75	14/10/1805	Robert	SELF	Widower	Tivetshall St Mary	Jane	HUBBARD	Widow
76	05/08/1806	John	COLLS	Single		Sarah Anne	LEIST	Single
77	19/12/1807	George	PEAKE	Widower		Charlotte	ALDRED	Single
78	19/12/1807	John	MILLS	Single		Elizabeth	DAVEY	Single
79	19/05/1808	James	MATHEWS	Single	Needham	Rebecca	RUDDOCK	Single
80	11/10/1808	Jonathan	FERRIATT	Single		Elizabeth	YEWELL	Single
81	20/10/1808	John	BUXTON	Single		Susan	COLLS	Single
82	07/11/1809	James	MULLINGER	Widower		Elizabeth	SELF	Widow
83	14/05/1810	John	SHANKS	Single		Mary	SAXBY	Single
84	19/09/1810	Richard	MEEN	Single		Sarah	CHAMBERLIN	Single
1	10/10/1814	Benjamin	BUXTON	Widower		Sarah	BARNES	Widow
2	08/08/1815	Thomas	HOWS	Single		Elizabeth	BARTON	Single
3	18/05/1816	Joshua	HOWES	Single		Emily	PAKE	Single
4	17/01/1817	Samuel	MICKLEBURGH	Single	Dickleburgh	Mary	DIXON	Widow
5	10/06/1817	Ragan	RUDDOCK	Single		Mary	HUBBARD	Single
6	14/10/1817	William	WOODS	Single		Amelia	BARTRAM	Single
7	18/11/1817	Saul	JENNINGS	Single		Elizabeth	LEIST	Single
8	30/12/1817	Robert	LEIST	Single		Amelia	ADCOCK	Single	Pulham
9	12/10/1820	William	BARBER	Single		Sarah	HOWES	Single
10	05/03/1821	Henry	COLLET	Single	Great Glemham, Suffolk	Elizabeth	COLLS	Single
11	05/07/1821	William	PAKE	Single		Elizabeth	BATLEY	Single
12	28/03/1822	Edmund	BARHAM	Widower	Redenhall	Jemima	LEIST	Single
13	28/03/1822	Thomas	DYE	Single	Dickleburgh	Hannah	CATCHPOLE	Single
14	24/09/1822	George	COPPING	Single	Hardwick	Barbara	BREESE	Single
15	15/10/1822	Amos	HARPUR	Single		Elizabeth	RUMSBY	Single	Redenhall
16	15/04/1823	Samuel	PEARCE	Single		Sarah	DAVIS	Single	Redenhall
17	24/10/1824	Henry	BENNET	Single	Lakenham	Sarah	CATCHPOLE	Single
18	24/10/1824	James	NEWBY	Single		Lucy	CATCHPOLE	Single
19	21/04/1825	Jonathan	MOUSER	Widower		Anne	GIRLING	Single	Needham
20	23/05/1825	John	PEARCE	Single		Mary Anne	DIXON	Single
21	05/07/1825	William	LEIST	Single		Lydia	ALDIS	Single
22	24/01/1826	Robert	NUNN	Single		Lydia	CLARKE	Single
23	27/04/1826	James	BREESE	Single		Elizabeth	SAUNDERS		Dickleburgh
24	18/05/1827	George	BARBER	Single	Starston	Mary Ann	BARBER	Single
25	21/04/1829	Philip	KNIGHTS	Single	St Peter, South Elmham, Suffolk	Mary	READ	Single
26	20/10/1829	Joseph	CATCHPOLE	Single		Charlotte	SMITH	Single
26	20/10/1829	Joseph	CATCHPOLE	Single		Charlotte	BULLOCK	Single
27	21/05/1830	Thomas	SOANES	Single		Emma	SHEPHERD	Single
28	14/02/1831	James	NUNN	Single		Mary	PEAKE	Single
29	04/08/1832	Francis	PAGE	Single		Mary	LAWES	Single
30	19/09/1832	James	LAWES	Single		Susan	PAKE	Single
31	04/01/1833	Jonathan	RUMSBY	Single		Dinah	BARKER	Single
32	18/09/1833	Samuel	SELF	Single		Amelia	COLE	Single
33	31/10/1833	William	FISHER	Single		Lydia	PEARCE	Single
34	07/01/1834	John	KEELY	Single	Starston	Susan	OAKES	Single
35	15/05/1834	David	VIPOND	Single		Mary Anne	GOODERHAM	Single
36	07/11/1834	John	PAKE	Single		Susan	GODDARD	Single
37	04/12/1834	Henry	OAKS	Single		Mary	SHIBLY	Single
38	29/04/1835	James Mullinger	SELF	Single		Elizabeth	ADCOCK	Single
39	30/06/1835	William	REEVE	Single		Mary	HOWES	Single
40	27/07/1835	James	CATCHPOLE	Single		Mary	PEARCE	Single
41	01/11/1836	James	GILLINGS	Single		Harriet	TOWELL	Single

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