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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Pitney lies almost centrally within the county of Somerset. Pitney is located roughly 9 miles southwest of the town of Glastonbury and sits a half mile north of the B3153 road which links Somerton with Langport. Pitney was anciently formed of two distinct manors and that legacy remains today with the village still consisting of two separated settlement clusters, the western end of Pitney House carries the church whilst east by a little under a half mile sits a further compact small village, both form Pitney. Like most Somerset parishes in this area pastoral farming formed the mainstay of the local economy, here it was supplemented by quarrying of the local "Lias" stone which was largely used for local building work, including in its church, and also for footpaths and pavements. Modern developments have come to the parish, Isambard Brunel's Great Western railway line from London to the southwest passes through the south of the parish without granting Pitney a station. Pitney sits on a peninsula of higher ground between the courses of both the River Cary and River Parrett with both joining to the west before flowing though, as the Parrett, the town of Bridgwater to the outer Bristol Channel. Pitney is sited at arund 30 metres above the sea, the peninsula reaches a local high spot of almost 100 metres on Sedgemoor Hill to the northwest at High Ham. Pitney parish was fairly typically sized for this area at around 1,300 acres within which it would have supported a population of around 450 parishioners. In Domesday times Pitney was a tiny place indeed, held directly by King William it could muster just a single plough together with some meadows & woodland. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 24th November 1761 | Somerset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - D/P/pitn/2/1/2 | 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 | A single entry only |
2 | 16th February 1764 - 20th June 1812 |
Somerset Archives & Local Studies - Reference -
D/P/pitn/2/1/3 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
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 |
Poor handwriting in this register may result in one or two
misreads |
3 | 22nd April 1813 - 23rd April 1837 | Somerset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - D/P/pitn/2/1/4 | 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 | There are patches of fading within this register which may result in one or two misreads |
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Episcopi St Mary
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Sutton Holy Trinity
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