England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Marston St Lawrence lies in southwestern Northamptonshire very close to the border with neighbouring Oxfordshire. Marston St Lawrence is located about 4 miles northwest of the market town of Brackley and 5 east of the Oxfordshire town of Banbury, it sits, in lanes, just under 2 miles north of the A422 road which connects those two places. Marston St Lawrence is a rather dispersed village covering almost a half mile from north to south in an oblong of lanes north of the hall and its estate. Marston St Lawrence would have been largely a pastoral farming community, a small-scale quarrying activity for road stone and some lace making added some diversity. Marston St Lawrence sits on the low watershed between the headwaters of the Cherwell and those of the Great Ouse, the former heading south to join the Thames, the latter heading northeast to reach the North Sea, one by the Thames Estuary the other by The Wash. Marston St Lawrence is sited at around 130 metres above the sea in gently rolling countryside which rises to the northwest to reach local heights of 184 metres on nearby Thenford Hill. This is an area of neat and compact small parishes and Marston St Lawrence is a typical representative, covering just under 1,900 acres it would have supported a population of just over 500 parishioners. In Domesday times Marston St Lawrence was held by one Earl Hugh of Chester and could offer 10 ploughs, a small meadow but did possess a mill. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 25th October 1754 - 16th June 1812 | Northamptonshire Archives | Bishop's Transcripts on loose-leaf folios | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | The marriage register for this period was so badly damaged by a fire in 1918 as to be unusable, the BTs were the usual complex of good and bad quality, it should also be noted that for many years marriages were not recorded within the BTs so although yearly returns were kept there are substantial volumes of marriages lost to history |
2 | 29th January 1814 - 14th February 1837 | Northamptonshire Archives - Reference - 205P/503 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | This register, too, was damaged by the fire but is, at least, usable if supplemented by the extant BTs, quality issues do still result in a major caveat as to accuracy |
Thenford
St Mary
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Helmdon
St Mary Magdalene
Greatworth St Peter |
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Thenford
St Mary
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Farthinghoe
St Michael
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