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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Glazeley St Bartholomew

 

The Parish

The parish of Glazeley lies in southeastern Shropshire not too far from its border with neighbouring Worcestershire. Glazeley is located about 4 miles southwest of the market town of Bridgnorth and sits astride the B4363 that connects Bridgnorth with Cleobury Mortimer. The parish of Glazeley incorporated the equally small neighbouring parish of Deuxhill but both are little more than hamlets on this wandering B road. Glazeley is just a scatter of farms and cottages on the southern banks of the Borle Brook. The economy would have been underpinned by pastoral farming but there was a coal seam which whilst highly sulphureous was exploited. The Borle Brook drains the parish southeastwards and soon joins the River Severn before making its way to the sea via the Severn Estuary. Glazeley is sited at around 100 metres above the sea in undulating countryside, local heights reach to 170 metres within a mile. Glazeley parish was one of the smaller Shropshire parishes, it covered just over 600 acres and supported a population of less than 50 parishioners. In Domesday times Glazeley was held by one Reginald the sheriff and was equally small offering just 4 ploughs albeit with a mill, presumably on the Borle Brook.


The Church

St Bartholomew's church sits on the eastern side of the B4363 about 300 metres from its crossing of the Borle Brook, a telephone box and war memorial are good landmarks in what is a rural setting. Sadly the church is not a mediaeval building having been built in the 1870s to replace Glazeley's earlier church as well as that at Deuxhill. With a lofty nave and chancel topped by a timber "fleche" the church is simple. The building uses the style of the Decorated period and uses the local sandstone, an uninspiring grey in colour. The church sits back from the road, a farm access track granting access, the churchyard is relatively open with few obstructions to photography.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 28th July 1754 - 4th July 1756 Shropshire Archives - Reference - FP/112/A/1/1 Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None
2 11th January 1768 - 25th April 1812 Shropshire Archives - Reference - FP/112/A/3/1 Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 3 entries per page Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None
3 25th April 1814 - 23rd June 1835 Shropshire Archives - Reference - FP/112/A/3/2 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


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Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
28/07/1754 James GOLLCOMB     Mary BIGG    
04/07/1756 William ROBERTS     Rebecca BALL    
1 11/01/1768 Richard JONES Single   Susanna WELLINGS Single Middleton Scriven
2 16/04/1769 Humphry PERRY Single   Mary HIGGINSON Single  
3 08/08/1769 John WILLIAMS Widower   Sarah MOON Single Chelmarsh
4 08/05/1777 Benjamin DAVIS Single Sidbury Jane PAGE Widow  
5 16/05/1778 Edward TOVERILL Single Quatt Elinor DALLOW Single  
7 07/07/1779 William HAMMONDS Single   Elizabeth PERRY Single Cound
8 28/01/1781 Richard CARTWRIGHT Single   Mary BARKER Single Chetton
9 28/01/1781 William HOPKINS Single   Mary BOTWOOD Single Chetton
10 21/12/1784 John BENNET Widower St Leonard, Bridgnorth Elizabeth OKELL Single  
11 17/07/1785 Thomas MILNER Single St Leonard, Bridgnorth Mary PAGE Single  
12 10/08/1785 John THOMASON Single Swettenham, Cheshire Mary DALLOW Single  
13 24/07/1786 John MASSEY Single Sidbury Elizabeth HURLSTONE Single  
14 18/10/1786 John EVANS     Winifred YATES    
15 22/07/1788 Francis PITT Single Highley Anne DALLOW Single  
17 02/07/1793 John JASPER Single Quatford Ann BROWN Single  
19 11/05/1794 William PAGE Single Neen Savage Anne HILL Single  
20 29/12/1795 John DALTON   Quatt Ann STEWARD    
21 03/01/1799 Thomas GIBBON Single Chetton Mary DALLOW Single  
22 20/11/1806 William GRIFFITHS Single Chelmarsh Sarah SHERRATT Single  
23 17/08/1807 John TURNER     Mary BEDDOES    
24 13/10/1807 John HARVEY Single Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire Eleanor SKERRATT Single  
10/12/1810 Benjamin WINWOOD     Mary HARRIS    
25/04/1812 Thomas LEWIS Single   Mary BEDDOES Single  
1 25/04/1814 John DANIEL Single   Elizabeth BENNETT Single  
2 08/08/1816 John SMITH Single Worfield Sophia SMITH Single  
3 26/02/1821 Richard EVISON Single   Mary CORFIELD Single  
4 18/02/1824 William JONES   Rockhampton, Gloucestershire Susannah HALL    
5 02/05/1825 Richard BINNAL     Mary BRIDGWATER    
6 27/03/1826 Edward GILES   Middleton Scriven Susannah ALLEN    
7 28/12/1827 James BASON Single   Elizabeth BACK Single  
8 07/12/1829 Francis REYNOLDS Single Ditton Priors Maria GUNN Single  
9 12/05/1830 James GLASE Single   Sarah SMITH Single  
10 01/05/1833 John TOMKINS Single Middleton Scriven Anne HALL Single  
11 03/01/1835 William MEREDITH     Elizabeth JONES   Stottesden
12 23/06/1835 William LANE Single Kidderminster, Worcestershire Lucy MEREDITH Single  

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