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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Wickhampton St Andrew

 

The Parish

The parish of Wickhampton lies in eastern Norfolk about 5 miles south of the large village of Acle. Wickhampton sits similarly that distance from its nearest major road, the A47 road which connects the city of Norwich with the port of Great Yarmouth. Wickhampton is a tiny place, little more than a hamlet which sits on the edge of the extensive grazing marshes which fringe the inland estuary of Breydon Water. The parish would have had a varied economy, arable farming on the drier western parts of the parish with pastoral grazing on the reclaimed marshes, a vibrant wildfowling and reed thatch harvesting would have kept the "marsh-men" in labour too. Wickhampton's drainage is provided by a multitude of man-made channels which drain the reclaimed land, wind pumps, iconic symbols of Norfolk's landscape, transfer the water into the main channel of the River Yare to reach the nearby North Sea. Wickhampton is sited at just 5 metres above the sea, much of the marshes being at or below that level, land rises gently westwards to around 20 metres or so within a couple of miles. A typical small Broadland parish Wickhampton covered just over 1,600 acres and would have supported a population of just about 150 parishioners. In Domesday times Wickhampton was a holding of King William and an equally tiny place offering just a single plough and a small meadow.


The Church

St Andrew's church sits on the eastern edge of the marshes, accessed by a dead-end lane, from the Halvergate to Reedham lane, which becomes, after the church site, the footpath to Berney Arms. The church, externally, looks fairly typical for a Norfolk church but internally a longer and more complex history is revealed. The chancel is revealed to be Norman and 12th century in date but reworked in the 13th as round headed windows were modified into lancets. The nave dates from the cusp of 13th into 14th centuries and shows the Decorated style of that period. The remainder is standard Perpendicular with the western tower and most exterior work dated to that 14th century date, documentary evidence places the tower as completed in the 1430s. A typical Victorian restoration of 1883 was fairly light and sensitive and repaired and renewed without destroying dating details. As one enters the lane one finds a large parking area before the church which enables an extended visit, a typical flint & brick wall surrounds the site with a pair of metal gates for entry. The site is open and uncluttered but the church is set towards the edge of the churchyard in the west making the better views of that tower from outside the churchyard.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
1754 - 1766



The register for this period does not survive
2 1st September 1767 - 11th August 1785 Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/352/2 Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number Marriages are not segregated and this could result in accidental omission
3 17th July 1793 - 11th December 1810 Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/352/5 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
4 7th December 1813 - 18th October 1836 Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/352/6 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Halvergate St Peter & St Paul
Halvergate St Peter & St Paul
Halvergate St Peter & St Paul
Freethorpe Al Saints
Chedgrave All Saints (detached)
Reedham St John the Baptist
Reedham St John the Baptist
Chedgrave All Saints (detached)


Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
01/09/1767 William BRUMSTEAD Widower Martha CARVER Widow Reedham
07/09/1767 George BOULT Single Moulton Eleanor PEARSE Single
25/10/1769 Thomas WATERS Single Martha LITTLEWOOD Single
17/12/1770 John GRIMBLE Single Freethorpe Elizabeth HOLMES Single
27/08/1771 John AMYAS Single Freethorpe Maria WOODHOUSE Single
29/01/1777 John HALL Widower Elizabeth BULMAN Single
25/04/1780 Joseph KING Single Elizabeth WEST Single
29/06/1780 Trevett READ Single Freethorpe Martha CARVER Single
15/08/1780 John SMITH Single Blofield Elizabeth MANTHORP Single
18/12/1780 Benjamin KING Single Mary BATELY Single
19/09/1783 John LINDOE Single Elizabeth AYRES Single
11/08/1785 John CLARK Single Mary CHURCH Single
1 17/07/1793 Edward MINISTER Single Elizabeth GARDINER Single
2 30/07/1794 John TRETT Single Mary EBBS Single
3 23/09/1794 Francis SHARMAN Single Sarah GOFFIN Single
4 15/10/1794 John MORTER Single Stokesby Mary HALL Single
5 10/12/1794 Thomas SHARMAN Single Mary PILE Single
6 16/07/1795 John MARGERUM Single Anne GODDISON Single
7 15/10/1798 Robert LAKE Single Susanna BRINDED Single
8 05/05/1801 William MARSHALL Single Priscilla PILE
9 09/11/1803 Samuel THAXTER Single Sarah BULMAN Single
10 14/03/1804 James SHARMAN Single Lucia FISKE Single
11 11/12/1810 Joseph THAXTER Single Mary HALL Single
1 07/12/1813 Robert BULMAN Charlotte BURROUGHS
4 29/03/1814 Stephen BATELY Widower Tunstall Harriet CROW Single
5 22/06/1814 James PALMER Single St Clement, Norwich Clementina CROW Single
2 05/04/1815 John BARLOW Susannah CLARE
6 15/05/1815 George AMIAS Susannah ATKINS
7 23/10/1815 James DANIELS Acle Sarah MINISTER
8 05/03/1821 William HUNTER Single Lucy ATKINS Single
9 02/01/1823 Robert FARMAN Single Hannah NEWSON Single
10 17/07/1823 William SWASH Single Elizabeth NEWSON Single
11 14/08/1823 James HOWARD Single Mary WARNES Single
12 10/09/1827 James MINISTER Single Hannah NEWSON Single
13 01/11/1829 James YOUNGS Single Lucy SHARMAN Single
14 31/01/1830 Samuel GALLEY Belaugh Elisabeth HOWARD
15 03/02/1830 James KEY Sarah LAKE
16 28/09/1830 James NEWSON Mary COX
17 10/11/1831 Francis SHARMAN Single Mary Ann YOUNG Single
18 11/12/1832 Samuel HOWARD Single Sarah BRISTER Single
19 16/09/1834 Samuel SMITH Single Charlotte NEWSON Single
20 08/06/1835 Richard HOWARD Single Elizabeth GREEN Single
21 29/07/1835 Benjamin BACK Single Mary Ann PICKSTONE Single
22 04/01/1836 William NEWSON Single Martha BRISTER Single
23 27/04/1836 Last BANHAM Single Sarah KEY Single
24 18/10/1836 Edward SHARMAN Single Elizabeth MORTER Single

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