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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Normanton lies towards the southeastern portion of the tiny county of Rutland. Normanton is located roughly 5 miles east of the county town of Oakham and sits about 2 miles south of the A606 road which links Oakham with the Lincolnshire town of Stamford. To sat that Normanton has changed would be an understatement, indeed the parish has changed twice in form. In the 18th century the original small village of Normanton was swept away entirely to create the parkland estate of Normanton Park with most of the villagers removed to nearby Empingham. Finally in the 1970s the site was chosen for the creation of Rutland Water Reservoir and the valley of the River Gwash in which it sat was flooded to form today's vast water-body flooding most of the park. Today's Normanton is merely an extension of nearby Edith Weston and dominated by the hotel which now occupies the former grand house. At the time of this transcript Normanton was a farming community dominated by the needs of the estate with a few quarrying the local stone for road building. Normanton is drained by the Gwash which emerges from the eastern end of the reservoir, passes around to the north of Stamford before joining the Welland to finish at The Wash and the North Sea. Normanton is sited at around 90 metres above the sea in rolling countryside which rises to local heights of close to 120 metres in places. At just 705 acres Normanton was always tiny and following the clearance fewer than 50 souls occupied the parish. Normanton is not mentioned in Domesday Book. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
20th November 1757 - 16th October 1800 |
Leicestershire & Rutland Record Office - Reference -
DE1579/1 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood
of misreads |
None |
2 | 25th February 1813 - 2nd November 1836 | Leicestershire & Rutland Record Office - Reference - DE1579/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Hambleton
St Andrew
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Empingham
St Peter
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Empingham
St Peter
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Hambleton
St Andrew
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