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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Seavington St Michael

 

The Parish

The parish of Seavington St Michael, one of two small villages the other being Seavington St Mary, lies in south central Somerset. Seavington St Michael is a compact and quite substantial village lying on the former route of the A303 road about 3 miles east of the small market town of Ilminster. The A303, now dual cariageway, runs a half mile north of the village and connects Ilminster with South Petherton and is part of the London to Exeter road. Seavington St Michael is dominated by small fields and pastoral farming a state which remains from the time of this transcript. Seavington St Michael is drained eastwards by the Lopen Brook, which soon joins the River Parrett and heads northwards to reach the Bristol Channel through the port of Bridgwater. Seavington St Michael is sited at around 60 metres above the sea and sits on something of a ridge with most undulating land sitting between 30 and 70 metres. Even by Somerset standards Seavington St Michael parish was tiny, it covered fewer than 300 acres and would have supported a population of less than 200 parishioners. In Domesday times Seavington St Michael was enumerated together with St Mary and the "lost" manor of Seavington Abbotts, collectively they offered 6 ploughs, small meadows and a mill and were held by Athelney Abbey, Couny obert of Mortain and a small holding by one Siward, a falconer.


The Church

St Michael's church sits in the southeastern part of the village at the end of the dead-end lane of School Lane. The church's origins lie in the 12th century but like many it has been much altered over the centuries and little remains to excite Pevsner whose description is short and succinct. Simple and consisting only of nave and chancel with bell turret the church was much altered in both 15th and 19th centuries to todays' building. The church sits in an elevaed position above School Lane, grassy bank and local stone wall rising to the churchyard, at the northern end of the site a set of steps through metal gates leads to the churchyard. The churchyard, itself is small and somewhat restricts the angles available for photography as a result.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 24th March 1754 - 12th May 1778 Somerset Heritage Centre - Reference - D\P\sea.ml/2/1/1 Plain, unruled book a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation requirements Grade 5 Register - the condition of this register is such that the transcript carries a "health warning" as to the likelihood of being substantially incorrect This register is in a very bad way, many entries are unreadable and have been omitted as a result. The transcript will contain errors and omissions and carries a "health warning" as a result
2 19th July 1779 - 20th March 1810 Somerset Heritage Centre - Reference - D\P\sea.ml/2/1/2 Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None
3 26th November 1817 - 14th February 1837 Somerset Heritage Centre - Reference - D\P\sea.ml/2/1/5 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Seavington St Mary
Shepton Beauchamp St Michael
South Petherton St Peter & St Paul
South Petherton St Peter & St Paul
Seavington St Mary
Lopen All Saints
Seavington St Mary
Seavington St Mary
Lopen All Saints

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
24/03/1754 Henry HURDLEY   Taunton Mary GALE   Taunton
07/05/1758 William HUTCHINGS   Seavington St Mary Betty WILLEY    
12/06/1759 John ASK     Mary GILLETT    
10/04/1763 Thomas MUSGRAVE     Sarah VICKERY    
28/09/1767 James MARSH     Deborah HUTCHINS    
17/01/1770 John GADDON     Margaret GIFFORD   South Petherton
10/02/1771 John ATKINS     Mary SWAIN    
16/06/1771 Edward SHEPHERD   Shepton Beauchamp Mary HUNT    
11/08/1772 Edward LAVER   South Petherton Susanna ELLIOTT    
03/04/1774 John HODGES   Seavington St Mary Elizabeth GODDEN    
12/05/1778 Mark KINGSWELL     Ann GODDEN    
1 19/07/1779 Henry VIRGIN Single Kingstone Mary WALDRON    
2 27/04/1783 William NAPPER     Joan CULVER    
3 14/07/1783 William NAPPER   Seavington St Mary Betty ASH    
4 08/11/1783 James MATRAVERS     Charity CULVER   Seavington St Mary
5 12/07/1784 William HUTCHINGS     Dinah HARRIS   Seavington St Mary
6 26/05/1787 Thomas HUTCHINGS     Ann SWAYNE    
7 31/07/1787 Joseph Paul READ   Crewkerne Frances HARDING Single  
8 25/03/1788 John MUDFORD   Merriott Mary HUTCHENS    
9 29/11/1788 John NAPPER     Susannah HUTCHINGS Single  
10 23/12/1790 James WEARE     Catharine HARRIS Widow Seavington St Mary
11 03/02/1791 Jonathan LOCKYER     Honour BRADFORD Single  
12 10/10/1792 James MATRAVERS     Mary GODDEN Single  
13 02/04/1793 Joshua HUTCHINS     Ann HARRIS Single Seavington St Mary
15 08/06/1793 Nathaniel MUSGRAVE     Elizabeth FRY Single  
16 27/08/1793 Thomas SCOTT   Seavington St Mary Susannah WALTER Single  
17 05/01/1795 Richard UPSTILL     Ann ROWE Single  
18 14/10/1795 Robert HILLARD     Hannah WARE    
19 21/07/1796 Jacob WARE     Susannah MAISH Single  
20 08/11/1796 William VICKERY     Betty LONG Single  
21 17/07/1798 Thomas NAPPER     Betty HUTCHINGS Single  
22 29/10/1798 Stephen ELLIOTT   South Petherton Hannah GODDEN Single  
23 01/08/1799 John VICKERY     Mary HUTCHINGS Single  
24 22/02/1800 Malaici MALE     Mary BURGES    
25 16/10/1800 John DUCK   Kingsbury Episcopi Mary WARE Single  
26 16/10/1800 John BAKER     Susannah OSTLER Single  
27 30/11/1801 John PRYOR     Unice VICKERY Single  
28 08/06/1802 James HUTCHINGS     Joan SMITH Single  
29 28/06/1802 James POOL   Seavington St Mary Elizabeth HARDING Single  
30 19/07/1802 Joel LONG     Mary WARE Single  
31 22/11/1802 John CABEL Single Lopen Jesse HARDING Single  
32 31/10/1803 George OLD   Stocklinch Magdalen Eunice MUSGRAVE Single  
33 21/11/1803 Tristram VILE     Mary CHIMLY Single  
34 27/12/1808 Charles VICKERY     Ann WOODLAND    
35 01/08/1809 John MONTRAVES     Mary PHILIP   Shepton Beauchamp
36 20/03/1810 Isaac STUCKEY     Elizabeth GARRETT    
1 26/11/1817 Samuel SLOCOMBE     Susanna MATRAVES    
2 05/11/1818 Samuel PAULL   Kingstone Esther WARE    
3 16/02/1819 Samuel BEST   Kingsbury Episcopi Hannah LOCKYER    
4 06/11/1819 Simeon HODGES   Seavington St Mary Prudence MATRAVES    
5 23/12/1822 Stephen DANIEL     Elizabeth HUTCHINGS    
6 18/12/1823 Richard JAMES   Kingstone Anne POOLE    
7 24/12/1823 James BROOM     Elizabeth VICKERY    
8 25/07/1824 John HARRIS     Hannah UPSTILL    
9 03/08/1824 Jonathan VICKERY     Ann NAPPER    
10 25/12/1824 Thomas GOMMER     Hannah WATHRAEL    
11 13/02/1825 Thomas WILLMENT     Mary BREDGE    
12 11/06/1825 John BEVISS   Wambrook Elizabeth POOLE    
13 02/05/1826 Robert HILL Single Martock Asinath LOCKYER Single  
16 00/00/1827 Thomas SCOTT     Ann CROCKAR    
14 02/09/1827 John CHICK     Eliza VICKERY    
15 01/10/1827 William BOWYER   Ilminster Mary HUNT    
17 22/01/1828 Samuel SWAIN     Ann VICKERY    
18 26/01/1828 Robert HARRIS     Ann BRIDGE    
19 30/05/1829 Edward PARSONS     Johannah VICKERY    
20 18/09/1830 Robert White ENGLAND   Kingsbury Episcopi Jessica POOLE    
21 09/10/1830 John MURCH     Elizabeth VICKERY    
22 03/04/1831 James FARNAM     Maria MUSGROVE    
23 20/10/1832 William WHITE     Mary VICKERY    
24 17/02/1833 Adam HOPKINS     Harriett GUMMER    
25 24/08/1835 Thomas GUMMER     Susanna SWAIN    
26 28/11/1835 Robert VICKERY     Phoebe STUCKEY    
27 02/04/1836 Robert LYE     Hannah LONG    
28 28/08/1836 Edmund HUTCHINGS     Eliza MEECH    
29 15/10/1836 James HILL Single Chard Mary POOLE Single  
30 14/02/1837 Samuel LENTON     Elizabeth MATRAVES    

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