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

 

The Parish

The parish of Higham lies in the extreme south of Suffolk forming a short stretch of the border, here marked by the River Stour, with neighbouring Essex. Higham is located about 8 miles north of the Essex town & port of Colchester and sits on the B1068 road which connects the main arterial route of the A12 with the Stour valley villages of Nayland & Stoke-by-Nayland. This is the territory of the artist Constable who's famous work "THe Haywain" was made in the Stour valley seawards of the busy A12. Higham, sitting within this valley and that of the tributary the Brett, would have had a more mixed farming regime than is usual in a country known for its broad arable fields, the Stour's grazing marshes providing diversity. The Brett & Stour conjoin immediately west of Higham and flow the short distance to the North Sea eastwards to meet it through the port of Manningtree. Higham's properties rise along the route of the B1068 from the river's crossing at 7 metres to the higher cottages at 25 metres above the sea, in this gentle terrain local heights rarely rise much above 50 metres. A small parish in a county of small parishes, Higham would have covered just under 900 acres and within that acreage would have supported a population of close to 250 parishioners. In Domesday times Higham was equally small but shared with no fewer than 5 landholders, collectively their holdings amounted to just 5 ploughs, the usual meadows & woodland but there was a mill controlled by Gundwin the chamberlain.


The Church

St Mary's church sits a quarter of a mile away from the main area of properties, sited next to the Hall and on the banks of the Stour. The church is a mixture of the two classic styles of the 14th century, the western tower's small windows indicative of a date at the commencement of the 14th century and Decorated in style whilst the main body of the church is Perpendicular and early within that style. All is indicative of a build in a single campaign commencing close to 1300 and spreading over much of that century to initial completion. For once Pevsner does not mention a Victorian restoration so if one occurred it was light and sensitive, a rare phenomenon.Higham Road leads away from the village towards Stratford St Mary, after a short distance welcoming blue signs indicate the track leading to the church. This is roughly surfaced and close to the site opens slightly to allow parking, the track continuing to the churchyard where most is unrestricted albeit the ornate gardens of the Hall's grounds are tight to the eastern end of the church removing the favoured southeastern aspect.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
23rd April 1754 - 22nd March 1812
Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference -
FB74/D1/5
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 12th October 1813 - 29th August 1836 Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference -
FB74/D1/7
Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Stoke by Nayland St Mary
Shelley All Saints
Raydon St Mary
Raydon St Mary
Stoke by Nayland St Mary
Holton St Mary
Stratford St Mary
Langham St Mary the Virgin, Essex
Langham St Mary the Virgin, Essex
Stratford St Mary

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
21/02/1754 John MARTIN Widower Polstead Elizabeth PALLANT Single Chattisham
05/03/1754 William TOOKE Single Dedham, Essex Susan KIDBY Single
1 23/04/1754 John LEE Single Boxted, Essex Elizabeth WOOTTON
2 30/12/1754 John MARTIN Single Lawford, Essex Sarah HOLDER Single
3 08/04/1755 Thomas SIZAR Single Sarah WHITE Widow
4 15/04/1755 James BOLEY Single Hannah EAST Single
5 20/05/1755 Owen PORTER Single Stoke By Nayland Anne REASON Single
6 21/10/1755 Thomas LEAVER Single Dedham, Essex Frances BUCKLER Single
7 06/05/1756 John ARY Single Elizabeth REASON Single
8 24/09/1756 John CHURCH Single Whatfield Mary MAYS Single
9 13/01/1757 Robert BRADSTREET Single Sarah WOODGATE Single
10 02/02/1757 Anthony THEEDAM Single Sarah PRICE Single Manningtree, Essex
11 05/07/1757 Nathaniel WHITMORE Single Sarah TRACEY Single
12 01/05/1759 John FENN Single Elizabeth KEBLE Single
13 02/09/1759 John MAYER Single Great Wenham Anne RATCLIFFE Single
14 24/09/1759 William SMITH Single Anne BUSH Single
15 16/11/1760 George BANHAM Single Elizabeth MAY Single
16 02/12/1760 John MANN Single Sarah AUSTIN Single
17 03/02/1761 Thomas COLE Widower Hadleigh Elizabeth BUMSTED Single
18 10/11/1761 John JACOBS Single Great Bromley, Essex Mary DILLOCK Single
19 16/12/1761 Robert BROWN Stoke By Nayland Frances CROW
20 29/06/1762 John BANHAM Widower Elizabeth GUNN Single
21 02/11/1762 Thomas REDGRIFT Single Dovercourt, Essex Mary CROW
22 27/06/1763 William HATT Single Manningtree, Essex Elizabeth CROW
23 27/10/1763 Samuel RATCLIFF Single Lawford, Essex Catherine HOUSEMAN Single
24 08/11/1763 John AUSTIN Widower Margaret BUCKLE Single
25 03/12/1765 James ALSOP Widower Great Oakley, Essex Martha SICKLEPRICE Single
26 11/02/1766 Robert SMITH Single Sarah JAGGARD Single
27 28/01/1767 Richard LEATHERDALE Single Redenhall, Norfolk Dinah KEYMER Single
28 28/04/1767 James D'OYLEY Single Elizabeth CLARKE Single
29 26/07/1767 Abraham TOSBEL Single Roydon, Essex Susanna BAKER Single
30 08/04/1768 Francis ASKEW Single Ardleigh, Essex Susan GULSON Single
31 08/12/1768 John HODGSON Single Stratford St Mary Ann NORMAN Widow
32 04/04/1769 Abraham RASHBROOK Single Holton St Mary Mary MAY
33 26/12/1769 William COOPER Single Stratford St Mary Anne WYMARK
34 06/06/1770 Edward COOK Single Hadleigh Theodosia PALMER Single
35 19/03/1771 Thomas THORPE Single Sarah MAY
36 10/02/1772 John GUNN Widower Sarah THEEDAM Widow Tattingstone
37 16/02/1772 Samuel COOPER Single Stratford St Mary Sarah WYMARK Single
38 23/02/1773 James TRICKER Single Anne MAY Widow
39 18/09/1773 Joseph ELY Single Mary GUNN
40 10/10/1773 William RAND Single Sarah GUNBY
41 05/04/1774 Thomas CHISNALL Single Hannah HEDGE Single
42 21/11/1774 Baynes TURNER Single East Bergholt Ann NORMAN Single
43 30/11/1774 James CANNOM Single Mary OSBORN Single
44 07/01/1776 John CULLING Single Sarah OSBORN Single
45 12/03/1776 Richard BARTLETT Lucy APPLETHWAITE
46 14/10/1776 Enoch HITCHCOCK Single Dedham, Essex Rose COLE Single
47 31/03/1777 Benjamin GUNN Single Mary DEATH Single
48 12/10/1778 John LINNY Single Layham Mary COOPER Single
49 09/04/1779 Nathaniel COLE Single Manningtree, Essex Sarah THORPE Widow
50 21/06/1780 John BARTLET Widower Sarah FEARIS Widow
51 08/02/1783 Thomas JOHNSON Single Ann ORSBORNE Single
52 12/12/1783 Samuel JAMES Widower Shelley Sarah THEEDUM Single
53 28/03/1784 William ROLFE Single Stoke By Nayland Sarah WEBB Single
54 26/10/1785 John BARTLETT Widower Catharine BASKETT Single Shelley
55 05/06/1786 Francis KEEBLE Single Sarah MANN Single
56 29/05/1788 Edmund COE Widower Hartest Susanna MENS Single
57 17/10/1788 John COOK Single Little Wenham Elizabeth COCKERELL Single
58 24/02/1789 Francis KEEBLE Widower Ann MARTIN Single
59 17/11/1789 William DRAKE Single Catharine BARTLETT Widow
60 28/01/1790 Posford SCOTT Single Elizabeth JEFFIS Single
61 04/05/1790 Joseph LEE Single Rebecca COOPER Single
62 09/08/1790 Richard NAYLOR Single Elizabeth TRICKER Single
30/12/1790 James MOTHERSOLE Single East Donyland, Essex Mary MARTIN Single
63 02/05/1791 James WHENT Single Charlotte MANN Single
64 26/08/1792 Simon SAVAGE Single St Nicholas, Ipswich Mary MIRRINGTON Single
65 29/10/1795 Robert SAGE Single East Bergholt Ann GUSTERSON Single
66 08/09/1796 John WRENN Single Ann CHISNALL Single
67 11/10/1796 George KING Single Stoke By Nayland Ann MENS Single
68 22/06/1798 Samuel FILGATE Single Stratford St Mary Amy BOIS Single
69 15/10/1798 Isaac BUSH Single Harriet PLUME Single
70 09/05/1799 Thomas BAKER Single Sarah Ann RAND Single
71 08/08/1799 Jeremiah GUNBY Single Mary KING Single
72 06/02/1800 Robert BRADSTREET Single Chamberlayn Anna ADLAM Roydon, Essex
73 29/05/1800 George WYMARK Single Frances RICKET Single
74 24/08/1800 John LADT Single Kelvedon, Essex Sarah SPURDENS Single
75 06/11/1800 Joseph SMITH Widower Roydon, Essex Hannah BEAUMONT Widow
76 14/11/1800 Samuel ROLFE Single Holton St Mary Sarah MANN Single
77 20/11/1800 William DOUBEL Single Ann SARGENT Single Roydon, Essex
78 20/12/1801 John WYMARK Single Elizabeth ROLFE Single
79 24/10/1802 Thomas SYZER Single Elizabeth GUNN Single
80 16/11/1802 John LAMBERT Single Elizabeth STOWERS Single Stoke By Nayland
81 30/11/1803 John BASKETT Single Elizabeth LONG Single
82 16/10/1805 George WARNER Single Sarah NICHOLS Single
83 05/10/1806 James EMIRSON Single Elizabeth RULE Single
84 09/10/1806 James FRICKER Widower Elizabeth NORMAN Single Manningtree, Essex
85 28/10/1806 John JOHNSON Single Caroline LISTER Single
86 06/01/1808 Abraham COOPER Single Stratford St Mary Sophia PLUME Single
87 17/11/1808 William GUNN Single Sarah GROVES Single
88 13/12/1808 James REEVE Single Sarah FULCHER Single
89 12/10/1810 Samuel KING Single Anne DEATH Single
90 04/06/1811 William JOHNSON Single Elizabeth PARSONS Single
91 17/10/1811 John PRETTY Single Hannah JOHNSON Single
92 24/10/1811 Isaac SONGER Single Stoke By Nayland Mary COUSINS Single
22/03/1812 Richard WOODS Single Sarah HILLS Single
1 12/10/1813 James SONGER Single Roydon, Essex Susannah BLYTH Single
2 29/03/1814 William WRENN Single Mary LADBROOK Single
3 25/10/1815 Abraham RISBY Single Charlotte RULE Single
4 14/12/1815 Edward REEVE Single Anna STUTTER Single
5 27/02/1816 Charles EYRE Single Dedham, Essex Eliza Wheatley STUTTER Single
6 02/01/1817 Daniel PETTIT Single Elizabeth WHENT Single
7 09/11/1817 Edmund COE Single Rebecca LEE Single
8 30/12/1817 Ambrose RULE Single Stratford St Mary Jemima SUTHURWOOD Single
9 15/02/1819 Jacob WALLER Single Charlotte ALLEN Single
10 14/10/1819 Robert CUTTING Widower Rushbrooke Susan CHISNALL Single
11 15/10/1819 Edward MULLET Widower East Bergholt Martha BANTICK Single
12 21/12/1819 Henry George PICKESS Single East Bergholt Esther Rolfe KING Single
13 02/04/1820 William STRUTT Single Layham Sarah CONSTABLE Single
14 27/04/1820 Stephen PIZZEY Single Mary LEGG Single
15 12/11/1820 John HOLMES Single Mary EMMENY Single
16 09/05/1821 Christopher TATHAM Single Polstead Susannah HAZELL Single
17 28/10/1821 Henry HOLMES Single Mary PARKER Single Stratford St Mary
18 04/04/1822 Henry SMITH Widower Elizabeth SMOOTHY Single
19 02/06/1822 James DAVIS Single Susan HOLMES Single
20 18/10/1822 James BRANFORD Single Jane GREENGRASS Single
21 19/05/1823 Robert MUNSON Single Stratford St Mary Mary FAIERS Single
22 23/06/1823 Francis LEWIS Widower Holy Trinity, Colchester, Essex Charlotte STRUTT Single
23 13/10/1823 Robert BOWELL Single Sarah HUNT Widow
24 26/10/1823 Henry CHISNALL Single Elizabeth BASKETT Single
25 02/03/1824 Robert CRAWFURD Single East Grinstead, Sussex Patty STUTTER Single
26 01/11/1824 Richard WOODS Widower Charity COOPER Single
27 24/01/1825 William BARFIELD Single Sarah STRUT Single
28 24/01/1825 Thomas GOSLIN Single Assington Elizabeth WATKINSON Single
29 10/11/1825 Robert HOLMES Single Marianne BANHAM Single
30 13/04/1827 Jonathan JOSSLYN Widower Sarah GREEN Single
31 11/09/1827 Henry OFFORD Widower Hadleigh Elizabeth MENS Single
32 10/11/1827 William ROLFE Single Braintree, Essex Elizabeth Margaret STUBBIN Single
33 01/12/1827 John MOODY Widower Sarah KETTLE Widow Polstead
34 19/02/1828 Anthony SHALES Single Isabella ATLEE Widow
35 10/03/1828 Joseph POTTER Single Stratford St Mary Elizabeth MENS Widow
36 12/06/1828 Thomas NAYLOR Single Bildeston Sarah Ann BAKER Single
37 22/01/1829 William CLARKE Single Mary THOMPSON Single
38 19/03/1829 Charles Henry GREEN Single Stanway, Essex Ellen Anne MAUDE Single
39 30/04/1829 Daniel JOSLIN Single Eliza CLARKE Single Stratford St Mary
40 09/07/1829 Thomas WRIGHT Single Susan WOODS Single
41 23/07/1829 James JOSCELYN Single Lydia WINNEY Single Ardleigh, Essex
42 10/12/1829 John BLYTH Single Stoke By Nayland Sarah WEBB Single
43 11/12/1829 James WHENT Single Jane BURMAN Single
44 24/12/1829 Thomas Cook HILLS Single Roydon, Essex Hannah MILLER Single
45 19/07/1830 James HAZELL Single Marianne CARPENTER Single
46 11/09/1830 Jonathan BLOYSS Single Mary MOODY Single
47 13/10/1830 Robert BEWICK Single Jane KEYMER Single
48 10/12/1830 John Charles NAIRN Single Dedham, Essex Catherine Thorrowgood MENS Single
49 29/09/1831 Simon MENS Widower Ann BUSH Single
50 02/08/1832 William Hardy TRAVIS Single East Bergholt Martha Anne STUBBIN Single
51 04/09/1832 William BARNARD Single Layham Ann ABLETT Single
52 11/10/1832 William WAYNFORTH Single Stratford St Mary Jubilee TAYLOR Single
53 26/08/1833 John BRIDLE Single Sarah RAMSEY Single
54 07/09/1833 James RATCLIFF Single Mary BLOYSS Single
55 09/11/1833 Benjamin Ellis SPARROW Single Stoke By Nayland Eliza BLOYSS Single
56 05/12/1833 George SMITH Single Harriett BUSH Single
57 24/01/1834 James LAMBERD Widower Bentley Sarah WATTS Single
58 06/07/1834 John COLE Single Langham Mary ROUSE Single
59 27/08/1834 Benjamin WEBB Single Stoke By Nayland Elizabeth ROUSE Single
60 20/08/1835 Stephen SAGE Single East Bergholt Mary GUNN Single
61 29/08/1836 Robert JOSLYN Single Eliza ALEXANDER Single

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