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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
East Lydford St Mary

 

The Parish

The parish of East Lydford lies in south central Somerset about 4 miles west of the small town of Castle Cary. East Lydford sits just east of the A37 toad which connects Bath with Exeter and which, here, follows the line of the ancient Roman Road of the Fosse Way. East Lydford is a small place with properties strung a right-angled lane connecting A37 with the B3153 which heads for Castle Cary, there are also properties alongside the latter road. Like most small villages in this area farming would have been the mainstay of the economy and like much of the area that meant pastoral farming of mainly cattle at the time of this transcript. East Lydford sits on the southern edge of the floodplain of the River Brue and those water-meadows would have provided rich grazing. Modern developments have come to the area, the Great Western railway line between London and Exeter cutting through the parish but with no station. The Brue drains the parish westwards, crossing the Somerset Levels to reach the Outer Bristol Channel through Highbridge. East Lydford is sited at around 20 metres above the sea in fairly level terrain, land rises steadily to the south to almost 50 metres around Foddington. East Lydford parish was fairly small in extent, covering just over 700 acres it would have supported just under 200 parishioners. In Domesday times East Lydford was equally small, held by Glastonbury Abbey it recorded just 3 ploughs, small meadows but there was a mill.


The Church

St Mary's church has been deconsecrated and in recent times has been sold as a private dwelling with no current access, the pictures shown are those recorded by volunteers recording all listed properties and may not reflect the current state of the building. Sadly even this building was not that in which these marriages took place, the medieval predecessor having been demolished and the iteration built in 1866. A short entry by Pevsner is indicative of a building which held little architectural interest for the man.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 17th November 1754 - 2nd April 1812 Somerset Heritage Centre - Reference - D\P\e.lyd/2/1/3 Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None
2 26th April 1813 - 11th May 1834 Somerset Heritage Centre - Reference - D\P\e.lyd/2/1/2 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads None


West Lydford St Peter
West Lydford St Peter
West Lydford St Peter
West Lydford St Peter
Wheathill St John the Baptist
Babcary Holy Cross
Babcary Holy Cross
Babcary Holy Cross

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Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
1 17/11/1754 Henry MILLS Babcary Sarah EEDES
2 03/11/1755 Humphry WAKE Ann RAWLINGS Ditcheat
3 22/12/1759 Thomas UPHILL Ann UPHILL
4 07/04/1760 James LINTERN Margaret HANNAM East Pennard
5 23/11/1761 James PARRASS Deborah IVEY West Lydford
05/03/1764 John MARSH Mary MARSH Crewkerne
12/08/1765 Philip SMITH Mary LINTERN
10/02/1766 John NAISH Love BORGER
29/05/1766 Samuel EARL Mary ALLEN Charlton Mackrell
16/10/1766 Robert DAY Martha CULLIN Babcary
10/10/1770 Thomas EARL Susanna SYDSERFF
31/10/1771 John RYALL Elizabeth COSTUS South Cadbury
16/12/1771 John ALLEN Barton St David Grace PARFETT
21/12/1771 James REEVES Mary ALEXANDER
03/09/1772 John RYALL Elizabeth CABELL
12/10/1772 John WAKE South Barrow Mary HARVEY
07/08/1774 Charles APPLEBY Ann MITCHEL
05/01/1776 John MITCHEL Jane PARSONS
30/12/1776 George OSMAN Joan CHAMBERS West Camel
31/01/1778 John BARNETT Elizabeth MITCHEL
16/02/1778 Philip RUSSEL Rebecca MITCHEL
14/01/1782 James APPELBY Jane BROWN
18/08/1782 Stephen WILLIS Penselwood Joan NASH
01/10/1782 William Monk SCOTT Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire Elizabeth DAVIS
09/12/1782 John BROWN Mary CLEAR
04/08/1784 Benjamin GREEN Hornblotton Elizabeth CHAPMAN
14/09/1785 James BAYLEY Yeovilton Betty EVIL
16/01/1786 William STACEY Susannah HARVEY
01/08/1786 John COCK Hornblotton Mary CHAPMAN
21/08/1786 James WINDSOR Mercy SAMS
27/11/1786 Henry MILLS Babcary Frances BRAIN
27/11/1786 Henry WOOL Babcary Frances BRAIN
21/06/1789 John DAVIS Mary Bradford UPHILL
03/02/1790 Phillip ARNOLD Lovington Jane NEWPORT
06/04/1793 William HUTCHINGS Anna ROACH
11/04/1795 William HILL Ruth MASTERS
25/09/1797 George HOCKLEY Charlton Adam Deborah RUSSELL
15/07/1799 Thomas BARTLETT Babcary Elizabeth RUSSELL
16/12/1799 James MILLARD Mary FRANCIS
24/02/1800 William BIRCH Jane RAWLINS
14/04/1800 James MICHELL Elizabeth CANNON
16/10/1802 William RUSSELL Elizabeth MARTIN Hornblotton
16/10/1803 James REEVES Alice PARSONS
17/01/1804 Benjamin GREEN Ann STACEY
05/08/1805 Samuel CLARKE Butleigh Rachel HIGINS
09/02/1809 John PALMER Keinton Mandeville Elizabeth STACEY
01/03/1810 Benjamin Bradford UPHILL Ann HAYWARD
21/06/1810 Thomas Morgan SCOTT Wheathill Elizabeth Bradford DAVIS
08/06/1811 John LITMAN Shepton Mallet Ann WAKE
02/04/1812 David JARVIS Single Stoke Trister Mary HIGGINS Single
1 26/04/1813 Thomas MARTIN Single East Pennard Maria RUSSELL Single
2 27/10/1814 Robert WELCH Milton Clevedon Mary Ann DAVIS
3 08/12/1814 Daniel WAGLAND Mary FRICKER
4 22/02/1816 John WELCH St Sepulchre, City Of London Hannah Uphill DAVIS
5 19/05/1817 William WALDREN Elizabeth GREEN
6 06/07/1817 Peter APPELBY Hester CHAPMAN
7 17/01/1818 Thomas PALMER Mary SAMS
8 12/04/1819 Reuben NEWPORT Ann BIGGIN
9 08/11/1819 James DAVIS Mary PERROTT
10 24/04/1820 Thomas HUTCHINGS Mary GOODLAND
11 10/08/1820 William SEYMOUR Barton St David Ann PERROTT
12 07/04/1823 Jesse BRAY Jane PERROTT
13 26/04/1824 James DYKE Sutton Montis Martha Huson RYALL
14 03/08/1824 William CHALKER Single Keinton Mandeville Elizabeth HUTCHINS Single
15 22/10/1826 James HUTCHINGS Elizabeth CHAFFEY
16 07/04/1828 John HIGGINS Dinah Pitman WINSOR
17 10/11/1828 William HILL Ann BOND
18 11/12/1828 William CHALKER Sarah HUTCHINGS
19 07/11/1831 James DAUNCEY West Lydford Amelia MARTIN
20 01/10/1832 Joseph BARTLETT Butleigh Mary STACEY
21 21/05/1833 John REEVES Agnes SLADE
22 27/05/1833 George REEVES Ann HUNT
23 04/11/1833 John Lewis HANNAM Fanny WAKE
24 11/05/1834 Jesse REEVES Mary Ann CULLEN

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