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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Great Saxham St Andrew

 

The Parish

The parish of Great saxham lies in central western Suffolk about 5 miles west of the market town of Bury St Edmunds. Great Saxham sits within an area devoid of significant numbered roads, the closest such road to Great Saxham being the busy A14 road which connects the East Coast ports though to the main motorway network and which lies a little under 3 miles to the north. There is not much to Great Saxham, no village as such, indeed it is suspected that the parish was a "closed parish" with most land held by a single landowner discouraging inbound migration and leading to a parish dominated by the estate of Great Saxham Hall, a house designed by the famous architect, Robert Adam. Today besides the hall's estate the parish has a few farms and cottages astride a straggling narrow lane. Like most of Suffolk's parishes Great Saxham was dominated by arable farming, cereals, beet and oil-seed now dominate. A small tributary of the River Lark drains the parish northwards to join that river which heads off westwards through the Fens joining with the Great Ouse to reach the North Sea through The Wash. Great Saxham is sited at around 80 metres above the sea, something of a local high point within this more undulating area of the county. Suffolk parishes are often small in extent and Great Saxham was one of them, covering a little over 1,400 acres it would have supported a population of around 250 parishioners. In Domesday times Great Saxham was recorded combined with Little Saxham, it is difficult to determine which of the 3 landholders held which portion but collectively King William, Bury St Edmunds Abbey & Count Gilbert's son Richard held 15 ploughs, meadows & woodland and a half share in a mill.


The Church

St Andrew's church sits on the western side of the wriggling lane that passes through the parish almost opposite the grounds of Great Saxham Hall. In 1798 that hall received a major rebuild and contemporaneously the church was also rebuilt. Fortunately enough remains to learn something of its history. Both north and south doorways were reused, they are Norman Romanesque in style from the 12th century but have been as Pevsner puts it "Gothicized" in 1869. Similarly the southern porch and tower are remnants of the medieval, in both cases Perpendicular in style with documentary evidence placing the tower into the 1440s. Much else dates both from the 1798 rebuild and the major restoration of 1869. Whilst the lane is narrow sufficient verge remains for a car to safely park outside the gates, ornate railings top a typical flint & brick wall. Whilst the churchyard is free of tree obstacles the church is compressed close to the southern edges leading to a limitation in the angles available to the photographer.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1
14th October 1754 - 7th February 1809
Suffolk Record Office - Bury St Edmunds - Reference - FL622/4/1/2
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 August 1813 - 1st December 1836 Suffolk Record Office - Bury St Edmunds - Reference - FL622/4/3/1 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Risby St Giles
Risby St Giles
Risby St Giles
Barrow All Saints
Little Saxham St Nicholas
Hargrave St Edmund
Chevington All Saints
Chevington 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 14/10/1754 John CHAPMAN Single Ann KERSEY Single
2 10/10/1756 Robert CATES Single Elizabeth PYE Single
3 25/12/1758 John RANNOW Hargrave Mary PRIOR
4 15/01/1759 John DOWS Single Hargrave Mary SMITH Single
5 11/02/1759 Abraham SHARP Single Ann DRINKMILK Single
6 09/04/1761 Thomas STUTTER Ann SMITH
7 10/01/1762 Samuel BROWN Widower Ann NORMAN Single
8 25/10/1764 John HARDON Single Moulton Elizabeth SHARP Single Bury St Edmunds
10 09/10/1766 Thomas RIDDELL Single St Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex Elizabeth MCLACHLAN Single
11 23/03/1767 Thomas JAGUARD Single Sapiston Sarah WEBB Widow
12 26/01/1770 John CRACK Single Ickworth Ann SCARF Single
13 01/07/1770 Thomas GARWOOD Single Little Saxham Charlott COPSEY Single
14 27/01/1771 Thomas SYER Single Sarah RANSOM Single
15 06/05/1771 Thomas MASTERS Single St Edmund, City Of London Margaret BAKER Single
16 07/11/1771 Henry Brown WRIGHT Single Fanny EVERED Single
17 29/06/1772 Abraham SHARP Widower Ann BUNTON Widow
18 29/09/1772 Thomas MATSON Single Mary RANSOM Single
19 11/10/1773 Richard ROLPH Single Ann FITCH Single
20 10/11/1773 Anthony ABBOT Single Rebecca HUNT Hargrave
21 25/03/1774 Daniel SHARP Single Rebecca FENN Single
22 12/02/1775 John BAXTER Single Hannah GIBBS Single
23 26/03/1775 John COPSEY Single Mary RINGON Single
24 08/08/1775 Robert FREER Single Martha ELLIS Single
25 01/02/1776 James DOW Single Elizabeth BIRCHER Single
26 16/02/1776 Thomas EVERED Single Sarah GIBBS Single
27 26/05/1776 Thomas HUNT Little Saxham Susanna REEVE
28 21/09/1777 Richard CRACK Single Mary PALMER Single
29 12/11/1777 John WOOD Single Barton Mills Sarah MARHAM Single
30 01/03/1778 Richard WRIGHT Single Sarah CLARY Single
31 08/08/1779 George BROWN Single Elizabeth GOODY Single
32 19/09/1779 William BROWN Widower Mary RENDAL Widow
33 29/06/1780 John FLETT Single Eleanor BUSHEL Single
34 21/11/1780 William LOCK Single Elizabeth FITCH Single
35 02/07/1781 William HARRIS Single Chevington Elizabeth OTLEY Single
36 10/10/1782 Francis DREW Widower Chedburgh Mary ROWNING Single
37 22/12/1782 William WEST Single Susan DANFORD Single
22/02/1785 Thomas GOODAY Widower St Mary, Bury St Edmunds Sarah EVERED Single
02/08/1785 James CATES Mary BAKER Single
14/11/1786 Henry NUNN Single Elizabeth NELSON Single
26/06/1787 Charles REPATH Single Ann ROWSTON Single
24/06/1788 John BAYLEY Susanna SEELY Single
03/12/1801 William FROST Single Ann CATES Single
25/06/1805 John William HICKS Single Bath, Somerset Susanna MILLS Single
22/02/1806 James OXER Single Sarah ROLFE
08/04/1806 Martin WRIGHT Single Sarah MAIDEL Single
08/05/1806 George FROST Single Mary LOVE Single
19/10/1807 John HAYHO Single Catherine CAMPLEN Single
09/11/1807 John SHARP Single Mary TILSON Single
25/07/1808 John HURREN Single Mary MASON Single
07/02/1809 Zachariah KERSEY Widower Amy SILVERSTONE Widow
1 12/08/1813 Samuel CROUGHTON Witley, Surrey Elizabeth CLARKE
2 19/10/1813 Philip MORTLOCK Hargrave Hannah ROLFE
3 03/01/1814 John WALLICE Sarah WARD Somerton
4 13/03/1814 Philip HARGRAVE Sarah WRIGHT
5 26/09/1814 Joseph HALLS Susannah Maria SHARP
6 31/10/1814 Robert CRACK Elizabeth CORNELL Cavenham
7 04/04/1815 Edward HAMAN Enfield, Middlesex Mary Anne MILLS
8 18/09/1815 James CATES Elizabeth FROST
9 04/12/1815 Samuel KEARY Mary SILVERSTONE
10 05/12/1815 John BANKS Elizabeth HARRIS
11 23/01/1816 John WEST Widower Esther BANKS Single
12 05/07/1818 Thomas OLLINGTON Little Saxham Hannah HARRIS
13 12/10/1818 Cornelius JOLLY Single Wattisfield Eleanor BANKS Single
14 15/01/1819 James CLARKE Single Mary LAST Single
15 21/06/1819 Abraham Julian SHARP Single Hannah Maria GARDINER Single
16 22/07/1819 George ROSBROKE Barrow Maria MOYE
17 23/07/1819 George ROSBROOK Barrow Maria MOYE Single
18 11/09/1819 Devereux OLLINGTON Single Mary HARRIS Single
19 20/10/1819 Charles BULLIT Single Troston Mary TWEED Single
20 14/05/1821 Robert MCEWAN Single Mary LACEY Single
21 19/11/1821 John MAIDLE Single Ann EVERED Single
22 14/08/1823 Jepthah TWINN Single Glemsford Milisinda WALLACE Single
23 25/11/1823 William WAKE Single Mary BOWERS Single
24 28/05/1824 William TAYLOR Single Mary MAIDLE Single
25 16/07/1824 James HUDSON Single Lackford Ann CRACK Single
26 18/11/1824 James CLARKE Widower Susanna BARFIELD Single
27 14/02/1825 John FROST Single Ann MOTHERSOLE Single
28 23/05/1825 John WATKINSON Single Ann WEBB Single
29 28/07/1825 Robert JONES Single Mary Ann COOPER Single
30 23/03/1826 Thomas SILVERSTON Single Elizabeth SPENCER Single Hargrave
31 01/12/1826 James CROSS Single Frances CLARY Single
32 15/04/1827 William BAYLEY Single Mary HUFF Single
33 01/05/1827 Samuel SILVERSTON Single Sarah KERSEY Single
34 08/01/1828 John HICKS Single Zoa KATES Single
35 31/07/1828 George WALLACE Widower Hargrave Elizabeth HUFF Single
36 11/08/1828 Daniel ROBINSON Single Hargrave Elizabeth CLARKE Single
37 24/12/1829 Edward PLUMPTON Single Zoa Elizabeth SHARP Single
38 22/03/1831 William Mann DENNIS Single Emily KERSEY Single
39 24/05/1831 Samuel FROST Single Susan SHARP Single
40 23/06/1831 Mahlen SPENCER Single Hargrave Emma KERSEY Single
41 17/01/1832 James BLINCOE Single Sarah LAST Single
42 03/06/1832 Humphrey WARNER Single Elizabeth WRIGHT Single
43 27/08/1833 Arthur Judd CARRINGTON Single Barrow Julia MILLS Single
44 17/12/1833 Richard FROST Harriet HARRIS
45 02/01/1834 William SIER Single Maria NUNN Single Hargrave
46 08/02/1834 John HUDSON Widower Elizabeth CLARKE Single
47 20/05/1834 John FROST Single Susan KING Risby
48 12/07/1834 Mark FROST Single Mary MARTIN Single
49 11/09/1834 Henry ROBINSON Single Glemsford Mary Ann CLARKE Single
50 22/10/1834 John ALLINGTON Single Mary Ann WEELDING Single
51 27/11/1834 James BONNET Single Hargrave Susan SHARP Single
52 01/07/1836 Thomas PRYKE Single St James, Bury St Edmunds Maria SHARP Single
53 01/12/1836 John CROWE Single Little Saxham Susan RICHARDSON Widow Little Saxham

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