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Marriages 1754 - 1837
Greatworth St Peter

 

The Parish

The parish of Greatworth lies in southwestern Northamptonshire not too far from both borders with neighbouring Oxfordshire & also Buckinghamshire. Greatworth is a mid-sized village which is located roughly 7 miles east of the Oxfordshire market town of Banbury & which sits a mile south of the B4525 road which links A422 from just east of Banbury through to the A43 northeast of Brackley. Much of Greatworth is built on a north to south running lane with a modern northeastern extension added in recent times. Like most rural parishes Greatworth would have been a farming parish, here the regime would have been largely mixed with arable and pastoral in roughly equal proportions, today modern machinery has expanded the arable content like it has in many areas. Modern developments came and went from Greatworth, a branch railway line linking Banbury with Towcester passed close by but has since been dismantled. Greatworth is drained by the headwaters of the Great Ouse, one of the countries longest rivers, which has multiple small tributaries merging to form its beginnings before embarking on the long journey to The Wash arriving through the port of Kings Lynn. Greatworth is sited at around 160 metres above the sea yet the countryside is only gently undulating with a local high point of 189 metres on Thenford Hill to the northwest. Greatworth was one of Northamptonshire's smaller parishes covering barely 800 acres within which it would have supported a population of just under 200 parishioners. In Domesday times Greatworth certainly did not live up to its name as it could offer just 4 ploughs as assets for its holder Bishop Odo of Bayeux.


The Church

St Peter's church sits on the southeastern edge of Greatworth on the eastern side of Church Road, a short dead-end spur off the main lane through the village. The church owes its origins to the 13th century where the chancel remains as an example of the Early English Gothic & Transitional styles of that century. As evidence for this early origin Pevsner notes the pointed top to chancel's eastern window. The priest's door also has 2 plain lancet windows of this date & style. The western tower follows in date sequence with the lowest stages dating from the period when styles began to change into the Decorated period albeit the upper stages are of the 14th century and Perpendicular. Much else is of the 14th century but with later modification, the nave shows window replacements of the 17th century as is the southern doorway. The usual Victorian restoration occurred, in this case of 1882 at which point the chancel arch was replaced along with a general refresh. Church Road is broad enough to permit careful parking outside the entrance. The churchyard is raised slightly above road level and a flight of steps at the southern end of the site is needed for access, the churchyard is relatively obstruction free for the photographer.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 15th February 1755 - 12th October 1813 Northamptonshire Archives Bishops Transcripts on looseleaf folios Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads

None

NB it should be noted that the marriage register covering this period has been badly damaged by water and is largely illegible BTs used to cover this deficiency

2 14th April 1814 - 2nd February 1837
Northamptonshire Archives - Reference - 139P/004 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 this register associated with poor handwriting may lead to a few misreads


Marston St Lawrence
Sulgrave St James
Sulgrave St James
Marston St Lawrence
Helmdon St Mary Magdalene
Brackley St Peter
Farthinghoe St Michael
Brackley St Peter
Brackley St Peter

1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830

Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
15/02/1755 Timothy SAYWELL
Syresham Ann SYPTHORP
Bodicote, Oxfordshire
03/05/1757 William LEAVIS
Stepney, Middlesex Frances SHEPPARD Single
19/05/1757 Nathaniel MILLS Single
Ann EVANS Single
11/03/1760 John WATTS

Hannah SELLER

17/11/1760 William WISE

Jane EYRE

16/12/1760 Samuel BLOXHAM

Sarah PRATT

16/10/1761 William ISAM

Hannah MAUNDERS

19/08/1762 John BULL Single
Hanna WATTS Single
24/09/1764 Thomas SAVAGE

Mary MANDOR

19/11/1764 Simon DENNIS

Mary HUMPHREY

30/01/1765 William PRATT

Mary JARVIS
Marston St Lawrence
17/01/1766 William TRUSLOVE
Daventry Elizabeth CHESTER

03/03/1766 William WELCH

Mary JOSEPH

02/12/1766 William BASELY

Elizabeth SELLER

03/11/1767 John BARRET
Marston St Lawrence Elizabeth WATTS

08/09/1768 William STOCKLEY Widower Helmdon Elizabeth CASTLE Single
04/06/1770 John JARVIS

Susanna DUGLESS

26/12/1770 Thomas CHERRY

Frances BISSEL
Kings Sutton
26/06/1771 Thomas CASTLE

Mary FRANKLIN

14/12/1772 John HANDS

Frances HOLLAND Single
20/01/1773 William HUMPHREY

Ann BASELY

13/11/1773 William PITTINS

Mary PUTTEREL

17/05/1774 Robert CASTELL

Rachel WILLIAMS

13/06/1774 Uriah GILBERT

Elizabeth CHESTER

28/05/1775 William ISHAM

Sarah GARDINER
Marston St Lawrence
12/10/1775 Richard ROSE

Elizabeth TAYLOR

28/10/1775 William GARDINER

Sarah HANCOCK

02/11/1775 Thomas CHAMBERLAIN

Alice WORHULL

11/07/1776 Thomas WHITTON Single Marston St Lawrence Mary COX Single
11/10/1776 Richard TRENTHAM Single
Hannah WADSON Single
31/12/1776 Thomas HARWOOD

Elizabeth FRANKLIN

20/05/1777 John CHESTER Single
Mary WATTS Single
13/03/1778 William PAIN Widower Thorpe Mandeville Mary CHESTER Single
27/06/1779 Samuel HARTLEY

Ann ADAMS

12/10/1780 Richard COCKERULL Single Wappenham Maria BULL Single
12/08/1781 John MOBBS Single
Mary ISHAM Single
23/09/1781 William BASELEY Widower
Mary DENNIS Widow
15/10/1781 John GOLBY Single
Parnell NORMANSON Single
05/11/1781 John WATTS Single
Sarah WATTS Single
08/10/1782 Charles FROST

Sarah HANCOCK

10/11/1782 John WIGGINS

Ann WILSDON

04/01/1786 Thomas ARIS

Elizabeth FRANKLIN

30/04/1787 John TAILOR
Horley, Oxfordshire Elizabeth SAVAGE

21/08/1787 William ISOM

Jane FRANKLIN

09/11/1787 Watkins PAGE
Farthinghoe Sarah FOLL

30/01/1790 Edward FREEMAN

Elizabeth ANDREWS

09/06/1790 John TOMPKINS Single Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire Mary SHEEN

14/10/1790 Amos BARRET

Elizabeth LOVEL
Marston St Lawrence
29/10/1790 John SHEEN

Elizabeth FREEMAN

21/02/1792 John PALMER

Elizabeth PRATT

15/03/1792 John FRANKLIN
Marston St Lawrence Martha LAMLEY

15/10/1792 Richard FINCH

Mary CLARK
Kings Sutton
15/10/1792 Benjamin BAZLEY

Elizabeth CLAY

26/07/1794 John SHILLINGFORD Single Buckinghamshire Sarah WATTS Single
08/06/1795 William ADAMS Single
Elizabeth WESTBURY Single
17/04/1797 Michael PRATT

Elizabeth LINES

24/07/1798 Thomas ADAMS

Amy BARRETT

01/09/1800 William MIDDLETON

Hannah CLAY

08/10/1800 William JACKSON

Elizabeth ISOM

16/10/1800 William ISOM

Elizabeth HAWKINS

21/09/1801 Philip CHERRY

Elizabeth HANDS

15/04/1802 Thomas HANDS

Mary HUGHES

22/04/1802 Benjamin CAVE
Newbottle Margaret SHELLAM

08/07/1802 Joseph HOWES
Greens Norton Charlotte FOLL

08/07/1802 Richard FOLL
Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire Bridget WARREN

30/09/1802 Samuel PLUMBE

Frances STANTON

04/10/1802 Edward RAVEN

Frances PRINT

13/10/1803 Robert AYERS
Radstone Martha COX

19/11/1803 John WIGGINS

Margaret HATTON

05/04/1804 Ephraim BAZELEY

Ann MASON

05/04/1804 Edward GIBBARD

Hannah FOLL

24/12/1804 Edward HUMPHRIES

Elizabeth MORRIS
Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire
24/11/1805 Thomas FRANKLIN

Hannah HUMPHRIES

12/10/1807 Thomas HART
St Marylebone, Middlesex Margaret CAVE Widow
03/05/1808 John CLAY

Mary HENTAGE

15/10/1808 George WHITE

Elizabeth WIGGINS

10/11/1808 Philip VICKARS
Brackley Elizabeth CASTEL

01/02/1810 William MARKHAM
Syresham Ann TIMS

20/05/1811 James SPILLES

Susannah BAZELEY

22/10/1811 William MOBS

Mary GOLDLEY

18/12/1811 Benjamin JEROMS
Marston St Lawrence Elizabeth PRATT

06/04/1812 John MOBBS

Elizabeth WHITTON

05/10/1812 William SMYTH
Farthinghoe Sarah BAYLEY

13/10/1812 George HARRIS

Ann NEEDLES

12/10/1813 John CHAMBERS
Farthinghoe Sarah SMITH Single
1 14/04/1814 Edward FOLL

Elizabeth FOLL
Wappenham
2 08/08/1814 Charles William DRURY Single Banbury, Oxfordshire Mary WADLAND Single
3 13/10/1814 Joseph BELCHER
Marston St Lawrence Elizabeth CLEMENTS

4 10/11/1814 Samuel PARISH
Evenley Elizabeth BAZELEY

5 12/02/1816 George BLEAK

Elizabeth BLUNDEL

6 16/09/1816 Robert WHITTON
Marston St Lawrence Hannah LOVELL

7 17/10/1816 Thomas BARNETT

Ann JUSTIN

8 20/10/1816 John MOORS

Hannah ISOM

9 28/10/1816 John GOLSBY Single
Mary WASHBROOK Single
10 07/04/1817 William SOUTHAM

Mary CASTLE
Marston St Lawrence
11 17/05/1819 William SIMMONS
Thame, Oxfordshire Ann SHEEN

12 13/10/1819 Jonathan HUMFREY
Helmdon Elizabeth HUGHES

13 16/05/1820 Edward BARTON

Elizabeth GREAVES

14 04/09/1820 James BAZLEY Single
Dessey BEESLEY Single Stowe, Buckinghamshire
16 10/10/1820 Daniel BARRATT

Ann TIMMS

15 12/10/1820 Richard HORSLEY

Hannah WATTS

17 18/10/1821 Nathaniel PECKOVER
Kings Sutton Mary HUMPHRIES

18 18/10/1821 William PRICKETT

Elizabeth VIGGARS

19 12/04/1822 George COLE

Sarah NAYLIS
Helmdon
20 29/05/1822 John TURVEY
Helmdon Ann MOBBS

21 11/12/1822 Thomas HUMFREY

Sarah HUNT

22 15/12/1823 George EVERETT

Alice ISOM
Marston St Lawrence
23 29/03/1824 James MUDDIMAN

Lyddy HIVES

24 21/10/1824 John JACKSON

Ann TAYLOR

25 18/04/1825 Jonathan HUMPHREY

Mary SHANKS

26 03/01/1826 Thomas BAGNELL
Oxfordshire Mary COLE

27 28/09/1826 John GOLSBY Widower Marston St Lawrence Hannah FRANKLIN Widow
28 30/10/1826 Richard Matthew PEARCE Single Radstone Eleanor GREAVES Single
29 11/11/1828 John HUMPHRIES

Hannah COATS
Mollington, Oxfordshire
30 05/01/1829 Thomas HUMFREY Widower
Mary Anne BUTLER Single
31 29/10/1829 John WYATT Single
Mary TUSTIN Single
32 15/11/1830 Thomas ISHAM Single
Sarah WILKINSON
Blakesley
33 02/12/1830 John BOOK

Martha WHITTON

34 12/02/1833 Robert WYATT Single Adderbury, Oxfordshire Sarah ISHAM

35 30/04/1833 Robert ISOM Single
Charlotte GULLIVER
Marston St Lawrence
36 12/06/1833 Joseph BAZELY

Sarah GOODMAN
Badby
37 02/07/1833 Richard SMITH

Hannah BAZELY

38 12/09/1833 John JACKSON

Elizabeth BARBER
Marston St Lawrence
39 13/11/1834 James SEWELL
Farthinghoe Mary Anne WEBSTER

40 05/02/1835 John BEAZLEY

Jane HUMPHREYS

41 01/10/1835 Thomas BARRETT Widower
Martha FRANKLIN Widow
42 09/11/1835 Joseph ANSTEE
Biddlesden, Buckinghamshire Elizabeth BRAGGINS

43 24/05/1836 William BAZELY

Hannah CLEAVER

44 31/10/1836 Robert SANDERS
Claydon, Oxfordshire Elizabeth WHITTON

45 06/12/1836 James NEEDLE
Culworth Ann HUMPHRIS

46 26/01/1837 Thomas EVERETT
Marston St Lawrence Hannah HUMPHREYS

47 02/02/1837 George PRATT
Marston St Lawrence Susannah FOX

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