England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Lindsey lies in southern Suffolk about 4 miles west of the market town of Hadleigh. Lindsey sits about 2 miles south of the winding A1141 which runs from Hadleigh through Monks Eleigh & Brent Eleigh to reach Lavenham. Lindsey is a curiously dispersed settlement, there is more cohesion about Lindsey Tye to the north than the "village" containing the church. Most properties lie along the lane leading from the A1141 southwestwards towards Edwardstone. Lindsey, like most Suffolk parishes, would have largely earned its living from arable farming but here this would have been supplemented in earlier times by the production of woollen goods earning them the name "Linsey Woolsey". A small tributary of the nearby River Brett drains the parish eastwards, the Brett turns south to join the Stour and thus to the North Sea through the latter's estuary and Manningtree, Lindsey is sited at around 60 metres above the sea in rather gentle terrain where local heights rise to 80 metres a little toward the northwest. Suffolk has a lot of rather small parishes and Lindsey was one of these, covering a little over 1,200 acres it would have supported a population of almost 300 parishioners. In Domesday times Lindsey was also a relatively small place offering just 7 ploughs, 5 to Bury St Edmunds Abbey with the remaining two controlled by Count Gilbert's son Richard. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
9th July 1755 - 20th March 1812 |
Suffolk Record Office - Bury St Edmunds - Reference -
FB69/D/3/1 |
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 | 12th November 1813 - 11th November 1836 | Suffolk Record Office - Bury St Edmunds - Reference - FB69/D/3/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Monks
Eleigh St Peter
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Chelsworth
All Saints
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Semer
All Saints
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Monks
Eleigh St Peter
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Semer
All Saints
Kersey St Mary |
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Groton
St Bartholomew
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Groton
St Bartholomew
Kersey St Mary |
Kersey
St Mary
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