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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Quatt St Andrew

 

The Parish

The parish of Quatt lies in southeastern Shropshire not too far from its border with neighbouring Staffordshire. Quatt is located about 4 miles southeast of the market town of Bridgnorth and sits on the A442 road which connects Bridgnorth with Kidderminster. Modern day Quatt is a tiny place, a small presence along the A442 and around the church is augmented by a scatter of farms and cottages across the wider parish which is rural and dominated by the estate of Dudmaston Hall; a closed oarish dominated by a single landholder Quatt never developed a fully functional village. This rolling landscape, above the incised valley of the River Severn, is dominated by pastoral farming, although in more modern times with heavy machinery some arable has crept into the farmer's portfolio. The Severn drains the parish on its long journey to the sea, reaching it through the Bristol Channel many miles to the south. Quatt is sited at arounf 70 metres above the sea, the Severn being some 30 metres lower, local heights rise to just above 150 metres within a mile or so of Quatt. Quatt parish was fairly typically sized for the lower parts of Shropshire, covering almost 2,700 acres it would have supported a population of around 350 parishioners. In Domesday times Quatt was an altogether more important settlement, its population at that time was sufficient to make it amongst the largest 20% of settlements recorded in that book, held by Earl Roger of Shrewsbury the parish could muster 14 ploughs, the usual meadows & woodland and also had a mill, presumably along the Severn.


The Church

St Andrew's church sits just east of the A442 set 100 metres or so into the narrow lane that connects through to the A458 (Bridgnorth to Stourbridge) road. The church is something of a curiosity as it was extensively rebuilt in the 1760s but the eastern end, consisting of the chancel, its northern chapel and the northern arcade were left as originally created. These remaining pieces date back to pre-Conquest periods showing late Saxon styling in the round headed window, now blocked. Whilst the chancel is ancient it was clearly reworked in later medieval times as Perpendicular style windows are also present. The chapel is from c1400 and the northern arcade fractionally later, enough to be Perpendicular in style rather than the former's Decorated touches. Everything else is brickwork from the 18th century rebuild and using a Georgian styling characteristic of this period. The site is perched high above the road but a parking area for a couple of cars has been carved into the banking enabling easy parking, a steep rising path passes through wooden gates to access a churchyard which has no obstructions to photography.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
26th December 1754 - 21st November 1791
Shropshire Archives - Reference - FP226/A/1/3
Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements
Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number
Fading of this register may result in a few misreads.

NB there is no segregation of marriages which when combined with the fading may result in the possibility of accidental omission
2 21st February 1792 - 20th December 1812  Shropshire Archives - Reference - FP226/A/1/4 Plain, unruled book, a further 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
3 15th February 1813 - 18th May 1837  Shropshire Archives - Reference - FP226/A/3/1 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 Tiny & cramped handwriting within this register may result in one or two misreads


Quatford St Mary Magdalene
Worfield St Peter
Claverley All Saints
Quatford St Mary Magdalene
Chelmarsh St Peter
Claverley All Saints
Alveley St Mary
Chelmarsh St Peter
Alveley St Mary
Alveley St Mary

1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830

Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
26/12/1754 Thomas HUDSON Betty BRISTOWE
11/02/1755 Charles BRISTOWE Elizabeth HASLEWOOD
19/10/1755 William BRISTOWE Elizabeth BRADLEY
25/02/1756 Richard ROBERTS Alberbury Mary COOK
26/01/1757 Richard CORFIELD Elizabeth HUGHES Chelmarsh
11/06/1757 Thomas BREWER Mary TELSTAL
04/06/1759 William WHEELWRIGHT Sarah RUSSEL
18/02/1760 William PEARCE Astley Mary MILLARD
21/04/1760 William CORFIELD Mary FOXALL Worfield
01/06/1760 Robert WAITE Claverley Sarah NEVETT
07/07/1761 Thomas BOOTH Chelmarsh Margaret HIGGINS Widow
18/02/1762 Francis BENBOW St Mary, Bridgnorth Margaret DALLOW Single
09/05/1762 Richard HIGGINSON Anne EVANS
14/05/1762 William HEIGHWAY Chelmarsh Mary JORDAN
30/08/1762 John NICOLLS Martha WELLINGS St Mary, Bridgnorth
06/10/1763 Edward GATACRE Claverley Mary PITCHFORD Single
26/12/1764 Benjamin LOW St Leonard, Bridgnorth Sarah COOKSEY
13/05/1765 William TROW Elizabeth TEVERILL
05/01/1766 Matthew MILLNER St Leonard, Bridgnorth Sarah ONIONS
06/06/1767 William STOCKWELL Sarah TELSTALL
26/12/1767 John HASLEWOOD Anne PIERVCE Claverley
10/02/1768 John HAYWARD Alveley Lidia ONIONS
09/08/1768 John DAVIS Anne BULL
26/12/1768 Edmund MILLARD Mary Oliver BLAKEWAY
14/09/1769 George JACKSON Frances COMPTON
02/05/1772 Edward HAWKESFORD St Nicholas, Bristol, Gloucestershire Sarah SKETT Single
15/06/1772 Richard PIT Madeley Betty MILLARD
27/04/1773 Thomas BARRETT Elizabeth NOKE
02/05/1775 William BOOTH Chelmarsh Ann SUTTON
20/11/1775 Richard FLETCHER Sarah REYNOLDS Alveley
03/10/1776 Thomas TAYLOR Ann ROWLEY
21/11/1776 John THOMKIS Anne TAYLOR
28/01/1777 George WHITEHOUSE Astley Abbotts Mary BRIGHT
25/03/1778 William CAUSER Enville, Staffordshire Martha NICHOLLS
15/11/1778 Philip CRUMPTON Sarah BRISTOW
10/03/1780 John HAYNES Susannah HARGROVE
16/04/1780 Thomas HARRIS Single Leintwardine, Herefordshire Deborah HALL Single
11/05/1780 Richard JAMES Catherine MASSEY
20/07/1780 Joseph ROWLEY Elizabeth HAND
20/05/1782 William BRISTOWE Sarah GOODWIN
04/05/1783 Thomas NOCK Single Stockton Mary CLARE Single
05/04/1785 John GRAINGER Martha WHIER
01/05/1785 John WHATMORE Chelmarsh Sarah SUTTON
28/08/1785 William GUEST Hannah BODISON
14/02/1786 Thomas SIDDAL Mary BRICK
14/02/1786 Thomas GOODIN Margaret BAGLEY
05/10/1786 George GITTON St Leonard, Bridgnorth Sarah COLE
15/04/1787 John SMITH Kinlet Catherine REYNOLDS
30/11/1787 Thomas ROGERS St Mary, Bridgnorth Mary COOK
01/12/1788 John Harris HUMPHRIES Elizabeth PRICE
19/04/1789 Thomas ROBINSON Margaret WISE
26/04/1789 Luke RHODES St Mary, Bridgnorth Jane FENN
18/05/1789 John REYNOLDS Sarah GRIFFITHS
21/09/1789 James DAWES Elizabeth SMITH
28/09/1789 Thomas WILLIAMS Mary HARLEY
14/02/1790 Thomas BOWEN Stanton Long Nancy CLARE
30/10/1791 William MANSEL Enville, Staffordshire Mary LATEWARD
21/11/1791 Henry ELCOCK Susannah MILWARD
21/02/1792 Edward MADDOCKS Sarah STOKES
23/04/1792 John BOOTH Single St Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire Sarah BOTT Single
12/02/1793 William DAVIS Mary WILLIAMS
20/05/1793 Banabas BRISTOWE Sarah JAMES
02/05/1795 William YATES Claverley Mary PURCHAS Single
10/08/1795 William WHITMORE Mary THOMAS
19/01/1796 Zachariah PARKER Lower Mitton, Worcestershire Anne BOTT
05/05/1796 Richard FISHER Kidderminster, Worcestershire Ann BACON
21/02/1797 Henry WEAVER Mary HEAD
30/04/1797 George BENTLEY Worfield Sarah PAGE
14/11/1797 Jonathan EVANS Elisabeth MATTHEWS
25/12/1797 John OVERTON Sarah HASLEWOOD
05/04/1799 Harry GREEN Catharine BACON
31/12/1799 Hugh HOUSTOUN Catherine WHITMORE
17/08/1800 William LEWIS Highley Jane CLARE
03/12/1800 John BISHOP Mary DAVIES
11/05/1801 William JAY Single Ann THOMAS Single
24/05/1802 William HOOPER Hannah GRIFFITHS
03/08/1802 John WALL Elizabeth WHITMORE
14/02/1803 Thomas MATTHEWS Kidderminster, Worcestershire Elizabeth BOTT
14/07/1803 Thomas Falkner TALBOT Single Tattenhall, Staffordshire Jane CLARE Single
17/07/1803 John LATEWARD Elizabeth SADLER
10/09/1804 Ezekiel ROWLEY Joice CRUMPTON
23/12/1804 Aaron DUNN Priscilla BRISTOWE
19/05/1806 John MOLLINEUX Martha DUKES
31/05/1806 William SMITH Upton Magna Sarah ADAMS
26/06/1806 John GOODWIN Enville, Staffordshire Elizabeth LATEWARD
09/07/1806 John DAVIS Quatford Anne Gilbert RHODES
29/09/1806 William WILD Widower Mary EVANS Widow
06/10/1806 John SHEPHERD Mary POWELL
10/02/1807 Thomas TAYLOR Elizabeth RHODES
02/04/1807 Elias ISAAC Single Worcester, Worcestershire Harriet WHITMORE Single
31/08/1807 William MINSHALL Kate BURK
16/09/1807 John JENNINGS Ann RHODES
19/11/1807 Thomas CARTWRIGHT Claverley Elizabeth ASHWOOD
31/12/1807 Thomas HOWELS Ann NICKOLS
29/02/1808 Charles HIGHINGS Diana TOVEY
11/08/1808 James CROMPTON Joice MARTIN
02/10/1808 William FELLOWS Single Claverley Elizabeth BACON Single
04/10/1808 John SWINNERTON Isabella WELLINGS
06/02/1809 William COX Ann PINNER
02/05/1810 William PRICE Mary JASPER
01/02/1812 Thomas HUDSON Elizabeth LEWIS
20/12/1812 Edward JAMES Jane RHODES
1 15/02/1813 Thomas HARRIS Elizabeth WELCH
2 03/06/1813 John WHELCH Elizabeth BREWER
3 28/12/1813 William BRISTOWE Single Elizabeth ELCOCK Single
4 22/10/1815 Edward JAMES Widower Catharine TAYLOR Single
5 14/05/1816 William WILSON Claverley Nancy Clare BOWEN Single
6 26/11/1816 Edward WELCH Single Susannah WILLIAMS Single
7 05/03/1817 Edward CARR Single Anna Maria WHITMORE Single
8 06/03/1817 Francis LAING Glamorgan Dorothea WHITMORE
9 17/05/1818 Emanuel BOUCHER Single Hannah BRIGHT Single
10 02/03/1819 Joseph WELLINGS Single Claverley Mary HAINES Single
11 04/10/1819 William ELCOCK Single Martha DAVIS Single
12 01/05/1820 Richard JAMES Single Sarah LEWIS Single
13 13/02/1821 George GREEN Single Catharine BACON Single
14 31/12/1821 Thomas TAYLOR Single Mary Ann BEAMMAN Single
15 07/04/1823 William MILWARD Anne HARRIS
16 29/04/1824 William BISHOP Single Mamble, Worcestershire Marcillah PAIN Single
17 10/05/1824 Philip CRUMPTON Single Catharine RHODES Single
18 11/04/1825 Thomas HETHERINGTON Single Harriet ELCOCK Single
19 04/07/1825 Benjamin PEARMAIN Single Elizabeth PARSONS Single
20 02/08/1825 William BEDMAN Esther NORMAN
21 10/07/1826 James MORRIS Fanny RHODES
22 24/08/1826 William JONES Ann MATTOCKS
23 18/12/1826 Ezekiel ROWLEY Single Sarah CLISSETT Single
24 16/04/1827 William HOVERTON Single Sarah FEWTRELL Single
25 03/12/1827 William DODD Single Sarah ROWLEY Single
26 18/12/1828 William MOORE Single Ripple, Worcestershire Harriet WILLIS Single
27 28/07/1830 Thomas OWEN Widower Quatford Elizabeth BEARD Single
28 13/04/1831 James PAIN Single Elizabeth GROVE Single Alveley
29 05/04/1832 Thomas BODDINGTON Single Dinder, Somerset Mary WALL Single
30 02/05/1832 William BENTLEY Single Anne PAGE Single
31 24/12/1832 William HARRISON Single Martha JONES Single
32 04/08/1833 Thomas BINNIAN Single Alveley Margaret DRAPER Single
33 31/08/1833 John HARRISON Single Elizabeth ARNOLD Single
34 05/09/1833 Henry SHUTT Single Longford Maria MILWARD Single
35 16/09/1833 George MADDOX Single Mary HOWELLS Single
36 28/04/1834 John MORRIS Single Anne HUGHES Single Alveley
37 18/11/1834 Thomas PAIN Single Sarah SMITH Single Upton Magna
38 16/02/1835 George WYLLIE Single Lucy ELCOCK Single
39 28/06/1836 George STALEY Matlock, Derbyshire Ann GOODWIN
40 18/05/1837 Thomas HAND Single Mary HARRIS Single Stottesden

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