England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Laxton lies in central Nottinghamshire and is situated roughly midway between the small market town of East Retford and the larger town of Newark on Trent being about 10 miles south of the former and the same northwest of the latter. Laxton is a small and compact village situated in lanes about 3 miles west of the busy A1 road (London to Edinburgh). Laxton's principal claim to fame is the retention of its pre-Conquest open-field system of agriculture and associated pariah legal mechanisms, a relic preserved thanks to no enclosure and remarkable to have survived. Laxton would have had greater importance in the past as its well preserved Motte & Bailey reflect its status being the largest in the county. Laxton's economy would have been dominated by agriculture and a mixed farming regime would have been the norm. Laxton is drained by small tributaries of the Trent which runs some 5 miles to the east of the village and eventually reaches the North Sea through the Humber Estuary. Laxton is sited at around 60 metres above the sea in a landscape gently undulating to local heights of just below 100 metres. Laxton parish was one of the larger in its area, it covered just under 4,000 acres and would have supported a population of almost 650 parishioners. In Domesday times Laxton was held by one Geoffrey Alselin and could offer just 6 ploughs together with small meadows and woodland. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 27th June 1754 - 6th August 1812 | Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/4052 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 19th September 1813 - 10th January 1837 | Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/4053 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Boughton
St Matthew
Kirton Holy Trinity |
Egmanton St
Mary
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Weston
All Saints
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Boughton St
Matthew
Wellow St Swithin |
Ossington Holy
Rood
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Kneesall
St Bartholomew
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Kneesall St
Bartholomew
Norwell St Laurence |
Ossington
Holy Rood
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