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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Waterden All Saints

 

The Parish

The parish of Waterden lies in northwestern Norfolk about 6 miles northwest of the market town of Fakenham. Waterden sits just over  a half mile east of the B1365 which connects Fakenham with Burnham Market. Waterden is a deserted medieval village, today there is only a couple of farms, the church and a scatter of cottages. Like most Norfolk parishes Waterden would have been, and still is, intensely arable with cereals the dominant crop. Sitting on a porous substrate there is little surface drainage, what little there is makes its way westward to join the River Burn, heading northwards to reach the North Sea through Burnham Overy Staithe. Waterden is sited at around 40 metres above the sea in gently rolling countryside that rises to 80 metres further east. Norfolk has many small parishes and Waterden is one of the smaller, covering just under 800 acres it would have supported a population of fewer than 50 souls. In Domesday times Waterden was equally small, a holding of William de Warenne it could muster just a pair of ploughs.


The Church

All Saints' church sits, in fields, just north of Waterden Lane, a narrow lane connecting South Creake with North Barsham. Rather surprisingly this tiny church is one of the most ancient in its county, upper windows of the church show Anglo-Saxon features indicative of the pre-Conquest period. In addition the two doorways, both northern and southern, are Norman and 12th century in origin. The early theme continues in the main body where Early English Gothic lancets from the early 13th century can be found in both nave & chancel. There has been much change since, the former western tower collapsed and was removed leaving a stump, the southern aisle, too, has been removed and extensive restoration in the 17th century wrought further change. Waterden Lane is narrow but the verge is wide enough for a car to park by the entrance to the grassy track that runs the 100 metres or so to the isolated building, the tiny churchyard does somewhat crowd the church making it difficult to adequately capture the church from within the churchyard.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
5th October 1755 - 20th February 1811
Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD593/3
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


South Creake St Mary the Virgin
Holkham St Withburga
Great Walsingham St Peter
South Creake St Mary the Virgin
North Barsham All Saints
South Creake St Mary the Virgin
West Barsham The Assumption
North Barsham All Saints


Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
1 05/10/1755 Edward BIRD Widower East Barsham Elizabeth READ Single
2 05/10/1755 Robert BARSHAM Single
Mary OLIVER Single
3 05/10/1756 Christopher DENNIS Single
Elizabeth PARKER Single
4 11/04/1757 Robert WALSH Single
Mary NAYLOR Single
5 28/12/1763 William GYBBS Single
Mary WELCH Widow
6 12/10/1773 Thomas FULCHER Single North Creake Mary MOY Single
7 08/04/1776 Walter BARTON
Thuxton Hannah PIGGE

8 08/04/1777 James EBDEL Single
Alice SPOONER Single North Barsham
9 10/10/1778 Matthew PESTLE Single
Ann APPLEGATE Single
10 15/07/1779 Thomas FROST Single
Mary NEALE Single
11 15/09/1779 Henry SMITH Single
Elizabeth EAGLETON Single
12 29/06/1786 William HALL Single West Barsham Rose LEMON Single
13 27/09/1789 John STIBBARD Single
Sarah DAVEY Single Tatterford
14 08/12/1805 Charles KNOWLES Single
Mary OUGHTON Single Docking
15 24/04/1807 James CLARKE Single
Margaret WILDBORE Single
16 25/10/1807 William GRIMES Single West Barsham Martha EBDALE Single
17 20/02/1811 John BOND Single
Mary ALCOCK Single Great Ryburgh

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