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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Bramford lies in southeastern Suffolk about 2 miles northwest of the city of Ipswich. Bramford lies where the B1067 road crosses the River Gipping (hence the ford of the place name). Nowadays Bramford is almost contiguous with greater Ipswich, separated only by the busy dual carriageway A14 road that crosses England from the busy port of Felixstowe to the M1 and M6 and forms a bypass for Ipswich. Bramford was formerly a discrete settlement on the west bank of the Gipping growing up around the ancient ford and spreading uphill to the west. This was largely an arable agricultural village engaged in growing wheat & barley as well as other crops. Bramford sits at about 10 metres above sea level rising from the river crossing to the west, land rises to the west as you climb from the Gipping valley to over 50 metres above sea level. Naturally all drainage heads for the Gipping and thus out to the North Sea through Ipswich. By the standards of thus area Bramford was quite an extensive parish and it supported almost 900 parishioners. In Domesday times Bramford was held directly by the King and supported an impressive 33 ploughs as well as meadows and a mill. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 10th April 1754 - 6th September 1754 | Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference - FB6/D1/3 | 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 | 8th October 1754 - 4th June 1786 | Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference - FB6/D1/6 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 17th August 1786 - 16th August 1812 | Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference - FB6/D1/8 | 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 |
4 | 5th March 1813 - 16th May 1837 | Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference - FB6/D1/12 | 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 | Fading of this register may result in one or two misreads |
Little
Blakenham St Mary
Claydon St Peter |
Whitton
cum Thurleston St Mary
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Flowton
St Mary
Burstall St Mary |
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Whitton
cum Thurleston St Mary
Ipswich St Matthew |
Burstall
St Mary
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Sproughton
All Saints
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Sproughton
All Saints
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