Kettlebaston St Mary

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

The Parish

The parish of Kettlebaston is situated in south central Suffolk about 3 miles east of the well-known tourist centre and weaving town of Lavenham. The village is sited in lanes to the west of the B1115 and north of the A1141 which links Lavenham with Hadleigh. Kettlebaston is sited on a ridge at quite a height for Suffolk, about 70 metres above sea level, overlooking a tributary of the River Brett. The area is largely arable, a scene of big fields and wide skies dominated by cereals and oil seed. The village is compact and the parish small in scale supporting barely 200 parishioners. Despite its small size Kettlebaston has been around for a long time - it merits a mention in Domesday Book where it supported 3 ploughs.

The Church

St Mary's church is sited in the heart of the village adjacent to the main crossroads of lanes. The church is rather old for a Suffolk church, in a county dominated by the Perpendicular style St Mary is broadly a mixture of Norman and Decorated styles. This detail places St Mary as being a century or two before the main Suffolk church building period and confirms the age of the settlement. The church sits in a graveyard which is managed for wildflowers, giving an unkempt appearance but bursting with wildlife and birdsong.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	20th May 1755 - 12th December 1811	Suffolk Record Office - Bury St Edmunds - Reference - FL597/4/1/3	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	9th March 1813 - 20th December 1835	Suffolk Record Office - Bury St Edmunds - Reference - FL597/4/3/1	Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register	Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads	None

Preston St Mary	Brettenham St Mary	Hitcham All Saints
Preston St Mary		Hitcham All Saints
Preston St Mary Monks Eleigh St Peter	Monks Eleigh St Peter	Chelsworth 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
1	20/05/1755	John	WILDING			Lily	HORRIX
2	14/08/1755	Stephen	LEVILL	Widower		Catharine	HARDING		Drinkstone
3	01/12/1756	John	WEB	Single	Brettenham	Mary	SHALVER	Single
4	12/01/1757	Samuel	SCARFE		Preston	Mary	DEAVES
5	11/10/1757	John	HEAD	Single		Frances	PEACOCK	Single
6	10/10/1758	James	GILLET	Single		Mary	GILLET	Single
7	22/02/1759	John	WILDING	Widower		Mary	GOSLING	Single
8	25/04/1760	Isaac	HALLS			Mary	WILDING
9	16/06/1760	John	MAWER	Single		Mary	HARRISON	Single
10	12/10/1762	John	HOLLOCKS	Single		Mary	RISBY	Single
11	06/06/1765	Richard	MASON	Widower	Brockley	Ann	RAMPLIN	Single
12	10/11/1767	Martin	FRENCH	Single		Bridget	RICHARDSON	Single
13	06/11/1769	Isaac	CLOVER		Monks Eleigh	Mary	CHENERY
14	13/02/1772	John	LEAKS	Widower		Sarah	PALMER	Widow
15	26/11/1772	Robert	PALFERY			Sarah	FLETCHER
16	12/10/1773	Thomas	BARREL	Widower		Sarah	RALPH
17	02/08/1774	Thomas	SPARK	Single		Mary	RUSSELL	Widow
18	10/10/1774	John	HEAD	Widower		Mary	SNELL	Single
19	30/01/1775	Richard William	PEACOCK	Single		Hannah	EDWARDS	Single
20	31/01/1776	John	MASKELL	Single		Leah	SNELL	Single
21	23/04/1776	John	BULL	Single	Cockfield	Elizabeth	SMITH
22	09/08/1776	Robert	ASTON	Widower		Elizabeth	CLARKE	Widow
23	01/01/1777	James	GIRT	Widower		Martha	SNELL	Single
24	11/02/1777	Benjamin	SALMON	Widower		Frances	SNELL	Single
25	22/04/1777	Thomas	UNDERWOOD	Widower	Milden	Sarah	HARDING	Single
26	21/11/1777	John	BENNET	Single	Hitcham	Elizabeth	BAKER	Single
27	14/04/1778	Thomas	SCOT	Single	Wattisham	Sarah	SPARK	Single
28	28/07/1778	John	VINCE	Single	Offton	Susanna	BAKER	Single
29	16/08/1778	John	WEBB	Single	Preston	Elizabeth	SPARK	Single
30	18/10/1778	Samuel	RAMPLING	Single	Chelsworth	Sarah	SMITH
31	13/03/1779	James	SNELL	Single		Ann	SEAGRIFF	Single
32	27/04/1779	Isaac	HALLS	Widower		Martha	CLARKE	Widow
33	20/05/1783	John	WILDING	Single		Sarah	CRACKNAL	Single
34	25/11/1783	John	CRACK	Single		Dinah	SPARK	Single
35	10/05/1785	John	DEATH	Single	Hitcham	Susanna	DOOR
36	11/10/1785	Daniel Bane	ARETON	Single		Lyddia	WILDON
37	30/11/1786	John	GANT	Single		Mary	GLOVER	Single
38	16/11/1787	John	BEASON	Single	Hadleigh	Charlotte	CLARK	Single
39	10/11/1789	John	HALLS	Single		Mary	HOLLOCK	Single
40	03/02/1791	Thomas	BAKER	Single		Jemima Anne	SCOTT	Single	Monks Eleigh
41	16/12/1791	Thomas	TAYLOR	Single	Monks Eleigh	Susan	SNELL	Single
42	29/04/1792	William	GANT	Widower		Sarah	JACOB	Single
43	30/09/1792	William	CARLOE	Single		Martha	VINCE	Single
44	16/12/1793	Benjamin	BAKER	Single		Sarah	SCOTT	Single
45	11/09/1794	John	GOODWIN	Single	Preston	Maria	SCOTT	Single
46	13/10/1794	John	PRENTICE	Single		Ann	BERRELL	Single
47	19/09/1795	Joseph	PITT	Single		Sarah	GRANT	Single
48	27/09/1795	Thomas	BARRELL	Single		Sarah	BUGG	Single
49	26/07/1796	George	BARMAN	Single		Sarah	HALLOCK	Single
50	26/11/1796	William	WRIGHT	Single		Jemima	PEACOCK	Single
51	01/05/1798	John	TYLER	Single	Monks Eleigh	Susan	HURRELL	Single
52	03/09/1798	Henry	FISHER	Widower	Hitcham	Una	DORR	Single
53	09/10/1798	James	COOPER	Single	Barking	Priscilla	CLARK	Single
54	01/01/1799	John	BARRETT	Widower	Felsham	Susan	LOSE	Single
55	07/03/1800	Thomas	NUNN	Single		Phoebe	DECORS	Single
56	11/04/1800	Christopher	GRIMWOOD	Widower		Elizabeth	WORLEDGE	Single
57	14/12/1800	Isaac	JOHNSON	Single		Elizabeth	HALLOCKS	Single
58	04/10/1801	Thomas	COOPER	Single		Catherine	RAMPLIN	Single
59	24/09/1802	Isaac	BUSS	Single		Sarah	WORLEDGE	Single
60	28/09/1802	John	HINES	Single	Bildeston	Ann	MAKINS	Single
61	31/12/1802	John	GREEN	Single		Sarah	MUNFORD	Single
62	31/12/1802	William	PLUMB	Single		Hannah	GREEN	Single
63	30/03/1803	William	TURNER	Single	Marks Tey, Essex	Ann	CLARKE	Single
64	12/07/1803	William	BUTCHER	Single		Sarah	GIRT	Single
65	19/10/1807	William	GURT	Single		Mary	GRIMWOOD	Single
66	29/06/1809	Henry	GRIMWOOD	Single		Elizabeth	WILDEN	Single
67	05/03/1811	Lewis	JAMES	Widower	Bildeston	Susannah	CLARKE	Single
68	23/09/1811	Robert	ABBOT	Single	Debenham	Mary	MAKINS	Single
69	12/12/1811	Jonathan	HEAD	Single		Sarah	WILDEN	Single
1	09/03/1813	George Gillingham	BRETT	Single		Hannah	PATRICK	Single
2	31/05/1813	Robert	PROCTOR	Single		Frances	SNELL	Single
3	24/09/1813	John	HALLS	Single		Mary	MOWER	Single
4	25/12/1813	John	WILDEN	Single		Elizabeth	MOWER	Single
5	16/08/1814	Thomas	MANNING	Single		Maria	WILDEN	Single
6	21/10/1816	Henry	CARLOW	Single		Martha	SNELL	Single
7	09/12/1816	William	WILDEN	Single		Elizabeth	STIFF	Single
8	20/10/1818	Johnson	EDGAR	Single	Preston	Sarah	MAKIN	Single
9	30/03/1820	Thomas	WILDEN	Single		Rebecca	PEARTREE	Single
10	02/07/1820	Joshua	DEATH	Single		Elizabeth	TAYLOR	Single
11	19/11/1820	William	DEAVIS	Single		Mary	DALPY	Single
12	09/01/1821	John	SPARKE	Single		Mary	WORLEDGE	Single
13	11/10/1821	John	MARTIN	Single		Mary	STEVENS	Single
14	18/10/1821	John	SNELL	Single		Charlotte	HALLS	Single
15	24/09/1822	John	CARLO	Single		Hannah	BRETT	Widow	Buxhall
16	11/12/1823	Edward	CRICK	Single		Mary	CARLO	Single
17	23/04/1824	John	WILDEN	Single		Sarah	PEARTREE	Single
18	25/01/1825	James	MANNING	Single		Mary	BAILEY	Single
19	10/10/1826	James	BUTCHER	Single		Mary	GARDENER	Single
20	18/12/1827	John	SCOTT	Single		Susan	RAYNHAM	Single
21	26/12/1828	Stephen	SALMON	Single		Unice	WILDEN	Single
22	01/01/1829	William	PLUMB	Single		Martha	WARD	Single
24	27/09/1830	James	BURROWS	Single		Martha	CARLO	Widow
25	02/05/1833	Henry	SNELL	Single		Elizabeth	PITT	Single
26	09/10/1833	William Webb	LEVET	Single		Hannah	WILDEN	Single
27	22/04/1834	Edward	STONHAM	Widower		Elizabeth	DEATH	Widow
28	03/07/1834	William	GURT	Single		Sarah	BRETT	Single
29	14/07/1835	Joseph	PROCTOR	Single		Louisa	PALFRY	Single
30	19/07/1835	William	MANNING	Single		Hannah	FOLKARD	Single
31	11/09/1835	William	PITT	Single		Anne	ORVIS	Single
32	04/11/1835	Jeremiah	GURT	Single		Maria	HEAD	Single
33	20/12/1835	Henry	SALMON	Single		Ann	PORTER	Single

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