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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Chaldon St Peter & St Paul

 

The Parish

The parish of Chaldon lies in southeastern Surrey not too far from its border with neighbouring Kent. Chaldon is located about 5 miles northeast of the market town of Reigate and sits on the B2031 which connects Reigate with Caterham. Chaldon is a rather scattered settlement with no easily defined centre but spread over a broad area of the North Downs amidst rolling rural scenery scarcely imaginable so close to London. This rural peace is notable as only a mile or two away is the intersection of the modern M25 & M23 motorways. Much of the economic activity, at the time of this transcript, would have been involved in arable farming and allied trades. Sitting, as it does, on the chalk of the North Downs Chaldon has little drainage but a series of dry valley head northwards towards the urban River Wandle which reaches the Thames at Wandsworth and thence to the North Sea through the Thames Estuary. Chaldon is sited at around 180 metres above sea level and almost sits on the crest of the North Downs escarpment which rises nearby to around 230 metres before falling away into the Weald, land falls steadily in rolling chalk downlands to Chaldon's north. Chaldon parish was rather small even by Surrey standards, it covered just over 1,600 acres and would have supported a population of around 200 parishioners. In Domesday times Chaldon was even smaller, it was held by one Bishop Odo of Bayeux and could offer just 2 ploughs.


The Church

St Peter & St Paul's church sits roughly a half mile north of the notional centre of Chaldon and is accessed along a short driveway to the west of the lane leading to Coulsdon. Pevsner recognises a single Norman style window in the western wall placing the start of this church into the early 12th century but much else is from the latter portion of the 12th and into the 13th centuries. Much of the church is in the Early English Gothic style of that century. The exception is the southwestern tower which was added in 1843, a late but attractive feature. Internally St Peter & St Paul has important early (c1200) wall paintings to which Pevsner devotes much space in his description, clearly important if not beautiful. At the end of the driveway is a small area for parking, the churchyard in a pseudo-=parkland setting is enclosed by a low brick wall with a wooden gateway for access. The church is so tightly enclosed by trees that there is really only a single angle from which adequate views can be obtained limiting photographic opportunities immensely.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 26th January 1755 - 13th June 1812 Surrey History Centre - Reference - P28/1/3

Plain, ruled & bordered book containing combined Banns & Marriages

Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number Fading of this register may lead to one or two misreads
2 22nd May 1814 - 22nd October 1836 Surrey History Centre - Reference - 6402/1/2
Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Coulsdon St John the Evangelist
Coulsdon St John the Evangelist
Coulsdon St John the Evangelist
Merstham St Katharine
Caterham St Lawrence
Merstham St Katharine
Bletchingley St Mary
Bletchingley 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
22/03/1754 Richard ARGENT Single   Sarah RICHARDSON Single  
1 26/01/1755 Moses THOMAS   Worth, Sussex Mary FINCH    
2 14/10/1755 Robert CLEAMANS     Mary POWSEY    
3 14/07/1756 Roger ROFFEY     Anne GLOVER   Newington
4 13/03/1757 Barrat MARTIN     Sarah LEW    
5 10/04/1757 Richard BIRKIN     Mary BROAD   Bletchingley
6 21/03/1758 William FARLOW Single St Dunstan In The West, City Of London Mary ALGAR Single  
7 12/02/1759 Arthur BOOTH     Anne STACY    
8 15/02/1759 John JOHNSON Single Croydon Elizabeth BOWMAN Single  
9 16/09/1762 James BROWN Single   Anne SMALE Single Farley
10 18/04/1763 Anthony PELLOW     Anne CLARY    
11 28/12/1765 Francis STUDDAL   Banstead Elizabeth CONSTABLE    
12 16/06/1770 Thomas TANNER Widower   Mary BRADLEY Widow  
13 27/11/1770 Thomas BILCLIFF   Nutfield Catherine STEADMAN    
14 17/03/1772 Thomas EWNE   Chipstead Elizabeth CLEMENTS    
15 25/05/1772 James MUNCK     Mary HOWARD    
16 10/10/1774 Thomas WICKENDEN Single   Sarah CULLINGHAM Single  
18 05/06/1775 John KEARSLEY Single   Mary SMITHSON    
19 30/07/1775 James HISCOCK Single   Elizabeth ROSAN Single  
20 10/03/1777 James ELLIS Single   Sary FILLERY Single  
22 13/04/1779 John CULLINGHAM Single Coulsdon Sarah JACKSON Single  
24 07/02/1780 James NICHOLS Single Croydon Elizabeth RICHARDSON Single  
25 18/10/1781 Benjamin FLINT Single   Mary TANNER Single West Wickham, Kent
26 14/08/1784 Robert THORNTON   Carshalton Elizabeth DALNER    
27 00/00/1792 John WARD     Mary NICHOLLS    
28 01/07/1792 Robert MARTIN     Elizabeth DICKINSON    
29 06/04/1795 Richard BURKIN     Frances ALLEN    
30 16/04/1795 John MEADES     Ann PERCIVAL    
31 29/08/1795 John HARBER   West Wickham, Kent Ann DALTON    
32 19/11/1795 William COOPER     Sarah HEARSAY    
33 00/00/1796 Benjamin DICKINS   Reigate Elizabeth LAKER    
34 24/10/1796 Benjamin MARTIN     Elizabeth TICHENER    
35 05/05/1798 Samuel PARSONS   Lewisham, Kent Anne Blakewell BERESFORD    
36 21/03/1803 John CANFIELD     Ann HENLEY    
37 30/04/1803 John COOPER     Mary TICHENER    
38 30/06/1803 Thomas STEER Single Godstone Ann BROWN Single  
40 12/10/1803 William BOZER     Mary RAPLEY   Coulsdon
41 28/10/1806 Nathaniel SHOVE Single   Catherine HATTERFIELD Single  
39 11/05/1808 William TICHENER   Lingfield Elizabeth HALE   Lingfield
42 11/06/1812 Thomas HOLDEN Single   Lucy GATLAND Single  
43 13/06/1812 John BARRY Widower Croydon Sarah GLOVER Single  
1 22/05/1814 James FINCH Single Hadlow, Kent Mary GARLAND Single  
2 22/05/1814 James SMALPEACE Single   Maria DEEKE Single Chipstead
4 15/11/1815 Richard CHILMAN Single   Ann CHAPMAN Single Chipstead
5 28/12/1819 George DEANE Single Betchworth Mary Isabella KING Single  
6 29/10/1821 George JUDEN Single Coombes, Sussex Elizabeth EDWARDS Single  
8 26/10/1822 Thomas YOUEL Single   Elizabeth SUTTON Single  
9 11/02/1823 James LEE Single   Lucy MARTIN Single  
10 07/12/1823 Richard BERKIN Widower   Louisa FINCH Widow  
11 12/09/1825 Richard BURKIN Single   Elizabeth BILOTT Single  
12 01/03/1827 Thomas PENSON Single Eastleach Turville, Gloucestershire Dinah BOYES Single  
13 18/03/1827 George MITCHELL Single   Elizabeth HOPKINS Single Merstham
14 30/04/1827 James HARBOUR Single Merstham Frances BORER Single  
15 24/11/1828 John STEER Single   Martha BOORER Single Croydon
16 10/08/1830 James WRIGHT Single Caterham Ann MEAD Single  
17 24/10/1830 George MARTIN Single   Mary Ann BENTLEY Single Caterham
18 05/04/1831 James COPPARD Widower Bletchingley Judith MEAD Single  
19 15/11/1831 Henry HOLDWORTH Single Reigate Ellen Stanford AGATE Single  
20 15/10/1832 William TAYLOR Single   Mary LUCAS Single  
21 02/03/1833 Thomas EDWARDS Single   Sarah BEAK Single  
22 21/04/1833 William KENT Single Reigate Ann BYLOTT Single  
23 31/08/1833 Andrew SHOVE Single   Sophia BIRKIN Single  
24 13/05/1834 Henry CHITTENDEN Single All Hallows Lombard St, City Of London Ann BROWN Single  
25 24/05/1834 William ROFFEY     Mary PUDDIX    
26 15/03/1835 James HARBOUR     Caroline BENTLEY    
27 30/07/1835 Benjamin ALLEN     Sarah BURNELL    
28 23/05/1836 Richard WALKER Single   Elizabeth COPPARD Widow  
29 22/10/1836 Joseph NASH Single Coulsdon Hannah SPARROW Single  

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