England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Sparham is located in central Norfolk about 3 miles southwest of the market town of Reepham. Sparham is located adjacent to the main A1067 road which connects the city of Norwich with the market town of Fakenham, the main part of the village is sited along a narrow lane which loops off to the north of the main road. Sparham is sited on a narrow ridge of higher ground which the A1067 follows having crossed the River Wensum a couple of miles to the east. The Wensum lies to the south and a feeder stream to north and east, the land being rather undulating for notoriously flat Norfolk. This is arable farming land with large fields of cereal and oil seed dominating under the big Norfolk skies. Sparham parish is quite a small one for a lowland parish but not atypical for the densely populated county (in mediaeval times) of Norfolk, the parish covered just over 1,700 acres and supported just over 300 parishioners. In Domesday times the land was held by one Osbert and supported 4 plough but held assets such as meadows and woodland as well as a shared mill (with Lyng across the Wensum). |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 5th October 1755 - 4th August 1783 & 7th August 1798 - 25th December 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/17/6 | 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 |
2 | 16th November 1783 - 1st December 1795 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/17/4 | Plain, unruled book, a usage 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 |
3 | 16th March 1813 - 5th December 1836 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/17/7 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Bawdeswell
All Saints
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Hackford by
Reepham All Saints
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Hackford
by Reepham All Saints
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Bawdeswell
All Saints
Bylaugh St Mary the Virgin |
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Bylaugh
St Mary the Virgin
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Elsing St
Mary the Virgin
Lyng St Margaret |
Lyng
St Margaret
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