England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Wacton lies in southern Norfolk about a mile southwest of the large village of Long Stratton. Wacton is a small and compact village sitting in lanes about a mile west of the A140 road which connects the city of Norwich with Ipswich. To the west of the village also runs the rail line from Norwich via Ipswich to London. Wacton, at the time of this transcript, would have a mixed farming regime almost equally divided between arable and pastoral farming; today arable farming predominates with large fields of cereals, oil seed and beet dominating the local landscape. Wacton is drained to the north by small feeder streams for the River Tas, this river heads to the edge of Norwich where it joins the Yare and thence the North Sea through the port of Great Yarmouth. Wacton is sited at around 40 metres above the sea and contours are few and far between in the local area which is something of a plateau. Wacton parish was small, as are many in Norfolk, it covered just over 1,000 acres and would have supported a population of just over 250 parishioners. IN Domesday time Wacton was shared between two prominent Normans, Count Alan of Brittany & Roger Bigot; the parish could offer an impressive 33 ploughs as well as small meadows & a patch of woodland, the parish also held a 5th share of a mill. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 21st October 1754 - 13th October 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD496/5 | 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 | 24th February 1813 - 14th June 1836 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD496/6 | 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 some entries makes for a tricky read in places leading to a possibility of a few misreads |
Forncett
St Mary
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Tharston
St Mary the Virgin
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Great
Moulton St Michael
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Long
Stratton St Mary
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Moulton St Michael
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Moulton St Michael
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