England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Sutton in Ashfield lies in the extreme west of Nottinghamshire forming a stretch of the border with neighbouring Derbyshire. Sutton in Ashfield is located roughly 3 miles southwest of the large industrial town of Mansfield and sits on the former route of the A38 (now the B6023 thanks to a bypass) which connects Mansfield with Derby. Sutton in Ashfield is also a large industrial town, a substantial population employed largely in the local framework knitting industry. Whilst the heart of the town is its oblong shopping centre with church at its northwestern corner the town has expanded greatly and now covers almost 3 miles from southwest to northeast, indeed it is almost contiguous with both Mansfield and Kirkby in Ashfield in a broad urban sprawl. The manufacture of cotton hose and lace were the dominant trades which built this population but small scale potteries and extraction of the local limestone also offered employment, the wider parish, for it is an extensive one, offered largely pastoral farming. Modern developments have come to the area but slightly skirt Sutton in Ashfield, the railway line from Mansfield to Derby offers a park-way station on its edges whilst the modern M1 motorway stays resolutely the Derbyshire side of the county border. Sutton in Ashfield is drained southwestwards by small tributaries of the River Erewash which is soon joined, the Erewash heads south to meet the Trent near to Nottingham and thence on the latter's long journey to the North Sea arriving through the Humber Estuary. Sutton in Ashfield is sited at around 160 metres, it sits on rising ground on the forefront of the nearby southern Pennines, land reaches almost 200 metres on the nearby low hill of Windmill Hill to the southeast. As already mentioned Sutton in Ashfield parish was very extensive, reminiscent of a northern upland parish in extent, covering almost 6,000 acres it would have supported a population of a little over 6,500 parishioners, modern estimation puts the population at 48,500 today. In Domesday times, whilst obviously much smaller, Sutton in Ashfield was a profitable holding for King William, assets of 21 ploughs, extensive meadows and woodland, a fishery and a mill placed it into the top 20% of settlements recorded in that book |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 15th April 1754 - 21st July 1780 |
Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/9806 | Plain, unruled book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | This register is badly faded and a real challenge to read, given some entries were almost invisible reference has been made to BTs to mitigate the error rate which may well still be substantial |
2 | 23rd September 1780 - 31st December 1801 | Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/9807 | Plain, unruled book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 5 Register - the condition of this register is such that the transcript carries a "health warning" as to the likelihood of being substantially incorrect | Large portions of this register are so faded as to be unreadable on the media available - the whole section is completed by extant BTs |
3 | 21st January 1802 -30th December 1810 & 13th July 1823 - 22nd July 1823 & 15th June 1832 - 19th November 1832 & 30th May 1826 - 10th August 1826 & 12th June 1832 - 6th August 1834 |
Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/9808a | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Whilst fading is not as prevalent as prior registers there are a
handful of invisible entries which required completion from extant
BTs NB It would appear this register is used as a stop-gap when the correct one is missing or finished and a new book failed to be purchased NB This register is bound together with its successor into a single archival deposit |
4 | 1st January 1811 - 28th December 1812 | Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/9808b | 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 NB This register is bound together with its successor into a single archival deposit |
5 | 4th January 1813 - 10th June 1832 | Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/9809 | 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 in parts of this register may result in one or two misreads |
6 | 9th August 1834 - 12th June 1837 | Nottinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR/9810 | 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 in parts of this register may result in one or two misreads |
Teversal
St Katherine
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Mansfield
St Peter
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Blackwell
St Werburgh, Derbyshire
South Normanton St Michael, Derbyshire |
Mansfield
St Peter
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South
Normanton St Michael, Derbyshire
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Kirkby
in Ashfield St Wilfrid
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