Brantham St Michael

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Marriages 1754 - 1837
Brantham St Michael

The Parish

The parish of Brantham lies in the extreme south of Suffolk forming a stretch of the county's border with neighbouring Suffolk. Brantham is located at the head of the Stour Estuary directly opposite the Essex town of Manningtree and sits on and mostly east of the A137 road which connects Manningtree with Ipswich. Brantham is a much expanded village, early maps show a small village gathered around its church which sits to the east of modern day Brantham. All of the development between that small village and the River Stour is modern suburbia and industrial land at Cattawade. At the time of this transcript Brantham was an arable farming community with early gazetteers estimating over 90% of the parish acreage as set to arable with cereals and root crops in traditional rotation. The Stour was navigable beyond Brantham and some folk would have been involved in coastal movement of local produce whilst the Stour's estuary would have been exploited for shellfish. Today's Brantham is a small commuter town a role expanded with the modern development of the railway line from Ipswich to London which passes through the parish and grants nearby Manningtree a station just across the Stour. Besides the Stour small brooks drain the parish into the tidal estuary which heads east to reach the North Sea between Felixstowe and Harwich. Brantham is sited at between sea level and 30 metres above it in gentle terrain where land rarely rises above 40 metres for some distance. Covering just over 1,900 acres Brantham parish was typically sized for its area, that acreage supporting a population of around 400 parishioners. In the Domesday Book Brantham is recorded as large enough to be in the top 20% of settlements by population, its 39 households barely reaching that threshold. The manor was shared between no fewer than 5 landholders with assets totalling just 9 ploughs, extensive meadows, a mill and 2 salthouses.

The Church

St Michael's church formed the heart of the original village it now stands on the northeastern edge of today's community at the apex of Church Lane which forms a "V" shape out-and-back south from the A137. Whilst the church began life as a typical Suffolk church of the early 14th century, built almost in a single campaign in the Decorated style, it was so extensively restored/rebuilt in the Victorian restoration as to have very little remaining that is original medieval. Pevsner list just the lower stage of the tower, the northern arcade and the piscina as genuine Decorated style fabric, it is likely that parts of the main nave walling also remain from those earlier times. The 1869 restoration rebuilt the entire chancel, the upper stages of the western tower and the northern aisle, it had been demolished c1820. The remainder of the church also received an extensive restoration. The western tower is topped by a weathervane acquired in the late 1960s when Manningtree's church was demolished. Church Lane is narrow with few spots for careful parking, a short walk may be necessary to find one. Entry is through a deep and elongated lychgate into a churchyard which has no obstacles whatsoever for the photographer.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	4th August 1754 - 12th October 1812	Suffolk Record Office - Reference - FB190/D/1/8	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
2	14th June 1813 - 16th February 1836	Suffolk Record Office - Reference - FB190/D/1/9	Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register	Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads	None

East Bergholt St Mary	East Bergholt St Mary Bentley St Mary Tattingstone St Mary	Stutton St Peter
East Bergholt St Mary		Stutton St Peter
Lawford St Mary, Essex	Lawford St Mary, Essex Manningtree St Michael & All Angels, Essex

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
1	04/08/1754	John	SMITH	Widower		Frances	DEAVES	Widow
2	10/11/1754	John	PECK	Single	Tattingstone	Ann	WOOLLARD	Single
3	26/01/1755	John	PALMER	Single		Elizabeth	MARVEN	Widow
4	23/03/1755	Henry	TAYLOR	Single		Sarah	HEWITT	Single
5	13/10/1755	Robert	BRUNDELL	Single		Margaret	WRIGHT	Single
6	30/09/1756	Robert	ROFFE	Single		Hannah	LUMLEY	Single
7	19/10/1756	Robert	MOLE	Single		Ann	MAYER	Single
8	19/09/1757	John	MANNING	Single	Nayland	Sarah	WILLIAMS	Single
9	11/10/1757	Joseph	TILLETT	Single		Ruth	STEGALL	Single
10	21/11/1757	John	REDGRIFFE	Widower	Great Bromley, Essex	Mary	ABBOT	Single
11	10/10/1758	Johnathan	TORBELL	Single		Rebeckah	HEWETT	Single
12	05/01/1759	Daniel	ENGLISH	Widower		Elizabeth	HOW	Single
13	08/09/1759	Richard	MARTIN	Widower		Mary	NEWMAN	Widow	East Bergholt
14	19/12/1759	John	BOYCE	Widower	Mistley, Essex	Ann	WRIGHT	Single
15	26/05/1760	Robert	CRISP	Single		Phoebe	COOPER	Single
16	09/10/1760	William	BAKER	Widower		Elizabeth	PANNIFER	Single	East Bergholt
17	30/01/1761	Joseph	RUDLAND	Widower		Sarah	ELY	Single
18	14/07/1761	Robert	WELHAM	Single	Chelmondiston	Ann	LAPPICK	Single
19	28/07/1761	James	MAYOR		Stutton	Sarah	MARVEN	Single
20	19/09/1761	William	WENEY	Single	Manningtree, Essex	Sarah	COOPER	Single
21	12/09/1762	John	MARSH	Widower		Frances	CLARK	Single
22	30/11/1762	John	MUNFORD	Single		Sarah	PEAR	Single
23	19/02/1764	Pilgrim	DAIDERY	Single		Rose	TRACEY	Single
24	20/08/1764	John	HARVEY	Widower	East Bergholt	Mary	DUNNET	Widow
25	18/10/1764	John	NUMAN	Single	East Bergholt	Sarah	HICKEY	Single
26	09/10/1765	Thomas	LEWIS	Single		Judith	DREWEL	Single
27	21/03/1767	Francis	BUDDS	Single		Elisabeth	DEATH	Single
28	12/08/1767	John	SMYTH	Widower	St Peter, Sudbury	Sarah	MUMFORD	Widow
29	27/08/1767	Thomas	WINNEY			Clemens	SHERMAN
30	14/10/1767	William	GREEN	Single		Susanna	NEWMAN	Single
31	26/05/1768	Robert	HOWARD	Single		Ann	PANNENTON	Single
32	01/11/1768	Thomas	LEMON		East Bergholt	Ann	THOMSON
33	23/01/1769	John	ABBIT			Mary	COOPER	Single
34	06/04/1769	William	TILER	Single	East Bergholt	Mary	LUMLEY	Single
35	01/01/1771	George	BIRKDALE		Lawford, Essex	Mary	CARTER	Single
36	15/04/1771	Nathaniel	OSBORN	Single		Mathew	BEECH	Single
37	09/10/1771	Joseph	TRACEY	Single		Martha	WARREN	Single
38	23/12/1771	Thomas	POWEL		East Bergholt	Sarah	GODDARD
39	07/02/1772	Thomas	WELHAM	Widower		Mary	ROSE	Single
40	30/09/1774	James	RICHARDSON	Single		Susanna	SAY	Single
41	18/04/1775	Thomas	GIBLING	Single	Manningtree, Essex	Ann	MOLE	Single
42	25/10/1775	James	CHATTEN	Single		Sarah	PERKINS	Single
43	16/07/1776	Samuel	WARREN	Widower		Elizabeth	WELLS	Single
45	30/07/1776	Samuel	SMITH	Single		Sarah	BEACH	Single
46	18/02/1777	John	MOUTELL	Single		Martha	LILLEY	Single
47	25/04/1777	Uriah	ABBOTT		Wherstead	Amy	ROWE	Single
48	06/05/1777	Thomas	JERMAIN	Single	Lawford, Essex	Sarah	PALMER	Single
49	01/06/1777	Samuel	CLARK	Widower		Elizabeth	WHITAKER	Widow
50	21/05/1778	Isaac	HUTCHERSON	Single		Rebecca	PINNER	Single
51	15/11/1778	John	HATCH	Single		Martha	GENTRY	Single
52	13/04/1779	Samuel	MARSH			Mary	GERWOOD
53	13/09/1779	William	BUNN	Single	Hadleigh	Sarah	WHITMORE	Single
54	31/10/1779	John	WOOLARD	Single		Sarah	MOUTED	Single
55	11/10/1780	William	KING	Single	Bentley	Mary	CLARKE	Single
56	12/11/1780	Richard	SAGE	Single	Washbrook	Elizabeth	OTLEY
57	22/12/1780	John	WRINCH	Single		Mary	THOMPSON	Single
58	05/01/1781	Robert	HOWARD	Widower		Letitia	HOWARD	Single
59	27/05/1782	William	BEACH	Single		Susanna	EARL
60	29/05/1782	Benjamin	BAKER	Widower	Stutton	Susannah	ARNOLD	Single
61	18/06/1782	John	SANDFORD	Single		Phoebe	CRISP
62	07/01/1783	Thomas	WOOLLARD	Single		Susanna	FALLOWS	Single
63	27/05/1783	William	WOOLLARD	Single		Elizabeth	ATKEN	Single
64	13/10/1783	John	RICHARDSON	Single		Sarah	ENGLISH	Single
65	27/04/1784	Stephen	DOUBLE	Single		Sarah	SMITH	Widow
66	26/05/1784	Joseph	WELHAM	Single		Deborah	FALLOWS	Single
67	14/11/1784	Benjamin	GOFFIN	Single		Susan	BEECH	Widow
68	21/12/1784	James	COOK	Single		Mary	CRISP	Single
69	26/12/1784	John	WARREN	Single		Martha	GULL	Single
70	06/01/1785	Thomas	BANKS	Single		Susanna	CRISP	Single
71	01/08/1785	Jonathan	OTTEWELL	Single		Elizabeth	BARNES	Single
72	18/10/1785	Isaac	HAMMOND	Single		Martha	OSBORN	Widow
73	25/12/1787	James	BENNIFIELD	Single		Amy	FRANCIS	Single
74	11/11/1788	John	HATCH	Widower		Mary	CLARK	Widow
75	16/12/1788	William	WHITBY	Single		Elizabeth	PANNIFER	Single
76	25/10/1789	William	BRUCE	Single		Elizabeth	GULL	Single
77	11/01/1790	Jeremiah	WARREN	Single		Tammerson	HOLDER	Single
78	07/05/1790	Joseph	CLARK	Single		Dinah	MAIZE	Single
79	12/10/1790	James	CHISNALL	Single		Susanna	EVERSTON	Single
80	04/10/1791	John Rivers	COLLINGS	Single		Rose Ann	CLARK	Single
81	23/12/1793	William	PANNIFER	Single		Mary	COOK	Single
82	04/03/1794	John	STEWARD	Single		Elizabeth	CHISNALL	Single
83	03/08/1795	John	MOUTELL	Widower		Mary	REYNOLDS	Single
84	26/02/1796	William	BLAKE	Single		Rose Ann	WEBB	Single
85	04/07/1796	Thomas	TRUSSON	Single	Bentley	Phoebe	MOUTELL	Single
86	21/04/1797	John	ROLPH	Single	Harwich, Essex	Sarah	ARNOLD	Single
87	29/08/1797	John	BRITTON	Widower		Ann	SAGE	Widow
88	12/10/1797	Joseph	WHINNEY	Single		Sarah	MARRINGTON	Single
89	01/10/1798	John	KEEBLE	Single		Martha	ORSBORN	Single
90	02/10/1798	Thomas	ALLSTONE	Single		Ann	WILLIAMS	Single
91	05/11/1798	Robert	WEBB	Single		Elizabeth	GRIMWOOD	Single
92	24/11/1798	John	WILLIAMS	Single		Sarah	LOWIS	Single
93	22/01/1799	Robert	WRIGHT	Single		Ann	WOODS	Single
94	15/04/1799	Robert	LUCAS	Single		Elizabeth	YELL	Single
95	07/05/1799	Thomas	GOODY	Single	Great Oakley, Essex	Jemima	HOWARD	Single
96	05/11/1799	James	JOSSCELYN	Single	Weeley, Essex	Sarah	DAVIS	Single
57	30/07/1800	John	PITTOCK	Single		Lucy	HOLDEN	Single
58	12/08/1800	Richard	GOSLINGTON	Widower	Stutton	Mary	WELLHAM	Single
59	04/11/1800	James	HAWARD	Single		Elizabeth	RASHBROOK	Single
60	25/11/1800	Samuel	MANN	Widower		Lucy	WATTS	Single
61	25/05/1801	James	SMITH	Single		Elizabeth	DEEVES	Single
62	10/11/1801	William	SMITH	Single		Rachael	GREETY	Single
63	24/11/1801	Thomas	HAWARD	Single		Anne	BRUNDLE	Single
63	01/12/1801	William	WHITBY	Widower		Anne	SMITH	Single
64	07/10/1802	George	KING	Single		Sarah	BARRETT	Single	East Bergholt
65	29/03/1803	John	FULLER	Single		Harriot	RASHBROOK	Single
66	31/05/1803	John	HAWARD	Single		Susannah	WOOLLARD	Single
67	28/10/1803	William	FOX	Single	Bradfield, Essex	Martha	HATCH	Single
68	19/06/1804	Henshaw	ELLISTON	Widower		Sarah	HATCH	Single
69	23/10/1804	Edward	ROBESON	Single		Jane	WOODS	Single
70	31/12/1804	Charles	HOWLETT	Single		Hannah	HURREN	Single
71	24/08/1806	Joseph	ELY	Single		Lucy	PITTOCK	Widow
72	16/09/1806	William	SKEET	Single	Rushmere St Andrew	Maria	RUSHBROOK	Single
73	30/09/1806	Thomas	WOOLLARD	Single		Hannah	WOOLLARD	Single
74	01/10/1806	Thomas	YELL	Single	Great Bromley, Essex	Elizabeth	WOOLLARD	Single
75	14/10/1806	David	HOW	Single	Tattingstone	Mary	CULF	Single
76	21/10/1806	William	HOWLETT	Single		Mary	COOK	Single
77	02/11/1806	Elisha	BLOOMFIELD	Widower		Abigail	BECKWITH	Single
78	25/09/1808	John	MASON		St Mary Magdalene, Colchester, Essex	Phebe	SANDFORD	Single
79	08/11/1808	William	WORTS		Manningtree, Essex	Sarah	KING	Widow
80	25/12/1808	William	BUGG	Single		Elizabeth	ARNOLD	Single
81	05/09/1809	William	WOOLLARD	Single		Mary	BECKWITH	Single
82	25/12/1809	John	ARNOLD	Widower		Eady	WELHAM	Widow
83	08/07/1810	John	WOODS		All Saints, Colchester, Essex	Sarah	LOYD
84	28/09/1810	Edward	ALLEN	Single	Manningtree, Essex	Ann	HOWLETT	Single
85	18/12/1810	Joseph	ARNOLD	Single		Sarah	WELHAM	Single
86	15/10/1811	John	RICHARDSON	Single		Rachel	DALE	Single
87	18/10/1811	Henry	BUSH	Single		Hannah	LYSTER	Single
88	18/10/1811	Abraham	WOLLARD	Single		Harriet	LOYD	Single
89	05/05/1812	William	PEAR	Single		Rachel	GUNN	Single
90	28/07/1812	John	ABBOTT	Single		Mary	LOTT	Single
91	12/10/1812	John	BROWN	Single	Bentley	Matilda	HOWARD	Single
1	14/06/1813	Frederick	WATTS	Single		Susannah	ELEY	Single
2	02/09/1813	David	MORRIS	Single		Frances	ARNOLD	Single
3	29/04/1814	George	LESTER	Single		Elizabeth	FELGATE	Single
4	10/10/1814	John	AINGER	Widower	Wrabness, Essex	Hannah	PRATT	Widow
5	28/10/1814	James	GUNN	Single		Mille	MOUTELL	Single
6	17/03/1815	William	EDWARDS	Widower		Lucy	GUNN	Single
7	09/05/1815	Thomas	WINDSOR	Single	Bentley	Sarah	BALDRY	Single
8	12/11/1815	James	KERREDGE	Single	Mistley, Essex	Sarah	WOLLARD	Single
9	05/12/1815	Jeremiah	WOLLARD	Single		Mary	WOLLARD	Single
10	20/06/1816	Thomas	HAYWOOD	Widower		Mary	TOSPELL	Single
11	18/11/1817	William	HARPER	Single	Lawford, Essex	Martha	WOLLARD	Single
12	24/02/1818	William	DALE	Single		Mary Anne	WHITE	Single
13	17/05/1818	William	STEVENS	Single		Amy	MILLS	Single
14	08/06/1818	William	COLE	Single		Sarah	ARNOLD	Single
15	25/08/1818	Benjamin	ETUN	Single	Manningtree, Essex	Sarah	WOOD	Single
16	17/11/1818	John	WELHAM	Widower		Martha	HOLDEN	Single
17	30/08/1819	Thomas	HAWES	Single		Thirza	ELY	Single
18	19/10/1819	William	WHITBY	Single		Ann	HUBBARD	Single
19	26/10/1819	James	MOUTELL	Widower		Mary Anne	BACON	Single
20	31/01/1820	Daniel	FISK	Single		Elisabeth	CATTEN	Single
21	30/06/1820	John	PINKNEY	Single		Mary	ARNOLD	Single
22	24/11/1820	John	WEBB	Single		Sarah	WINDSOR	Single
23	15/05/1821	William	PYETT	Single		Mary	HUNT	Single
24	02/10/1821	James	GUNN	Widower		Lucy	STEVENS	Single
25	08/11/1822	Isaac	KING	Single		Hannah	COLSON	Single
26	08/01/1823	David	RIST	Single		Jemima	JACKSON	Single
27	27/05/1823	Joseph	MOUTELL	Single		Alice	ALLISTON	Single
28	25/11/1823	Samuel	HUNT	Single		Martha	COOPER	Single
29	17/08/1824	James	GARRARD	Single	Hintlesham	Mary Anne	BURGESS	Single
30	08/12/1824	John	DOUBLE	Single		Elizabeth	JOSCELYN	Single	Holton St Mary
31	07/03/1825	William	MOUTELL	Single		Mary	WHINEY	Single
32	01/04/1825	John	GIBSON	Single		Hannah	STEVENS	Single
33	27/10/1825	Nathaniel	PICKESS	Single		Martha	ROBERSON	Single
34	01/11/1825	John	WOLLARD	Single		Hannah	KING	Single
35	27/12/1825	Charles	BRUNDELL	Single		Maria	BURGESS	Single
36	24/02/1826	Robert	BRUNDELL	Single		Harriet	RAND	Single
37	28/05/1827	John	BEASTON	Single		Mary Anne	ALLEN	Single
38	06/08/1827	William Blyth	GURLING	Single	Manningtree, Essex	Elizabeth	ELY	Single
39	23/10/1827	Robert	ROSE	Single	Bentley	Lucy	HUNT	Single
40	30/03/1828	James	DOUBLE	Single	Bentley	Elizabeth	PARTRIDGE	Single
41	24/11/1829	Thomas	WHINEY	Single		Maria	MICKLEBURGH	Single	East Bergholt
42	04/10/1831	John	MUNNINGS	Single		Sarah	BLOMFIELD	Single
43	14/10/1831	William	LONG	Single		Martha	HAYWARD	Single
44	25/11/1831	Joseph	WHINEY	Single		Elizabeth	SMITH	Single
45	09/12/1831	Jeremiah	RANDALL	Single		Mary Ann	HOWLETT	Single
46	18/01/1833	Joseph	CHAPLIN	Single		Mary Ann	PRYER	Single
47	26/09/1833	William	NEVERD	Single	Lawford, Essex	Lucy	MANNINGS	Single
48	12/11/1833	Joseph	WELHAM	Single		Martha	MOUTELL	Single
49	04/04/1834	Robert	NEVARD	Single	Langham, Essex	Mary	LOTT	Single
50	27/06/1834	William	MUNNINGS	Single		Emily	READ	Single	Tattingstone
51	17/10/1834	John	LUCAS	Single		Hannah	WOOLLARD	Single
52	28/10/1834	William	BLOMFIELD	Single		Maria	HOWARD	Single
53	28/10/1834	Samuel	ROBERSON	Single		Lucy	KIDDELL	Single
54	09/11/1834	John	TAYLOR	Single	Great Oakley, Essex	Sarah	HOWLETT	Single
55	14/11/1834	James	ROBINSON	Single		Sarah	WHINEY	Single
56	21/11/1834	John	HEARSUM	Single		Eliza	RICHER	Single
57	21/11/1834	John Dale	LILLY	Single		Lucy	ELY	Single
58	25/12/1834	Thomas	BRUNDELL	Single		Alice	GIBLING	Single
59	16/10/1835	James	WOOLARD	Single		Sarah	ASKEW	Single
60	29/12/1835	Richard	WHITBY	Single		Anne	WALLER	Single
61	16/02/1836	Samuel Chaplin	HAWES	Single	Nayland	Hannah	BUSH	Single

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