England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe 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. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
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1754 - 1766 |
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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 |
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