England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Middleton lies in southern Westmorland, indeed it forms part of the border with neighbouring Yorkshire. Middleton was created as a chapelry from the greater parish of Kirkby Lonsdale but has been licensed for marriages throughout the period of this transcript. Middleton is located about 4 miles north of its greater neighbour, Kirkby Lonsdale, and is sited on the on the A683 road which links Kirkby Lonsdale with the Yorkshire market town of Sedbergh. Middleton has no real centre to it and is something of a dispersed parish, a few properties line the A683 and the rest are dispersed around the parish as farmsteads and cottages. Middleton sits in the valley bottom of the River Lune and this provides a varied pastoral landscape, cattle in the softer pastures of the floodplain and sheep on the high fells which surround. The Lune is heading southwards to meet the Irish Sea through Morecambe Bay. Middleton is sited at just 70 metres above the sea but hills rise to east and west and local heights top-out at over 600 metres on Calf Top. Middleton parish was extensive, as befits a northern upland parish, it would have covered just over 7,500 acres albeit most were "waste" and supported a population of around 270 parishioners. In Domesday times Middleton was held directly by the King himself but the book does not detail the assets of the parish. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 1st June 1754 - 30th November 1812 | Cumbria Archives - Kendal - Reference - WPR
40/1/2/1 |
Plain, ruled & margined book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 3rd November 1814 - 2nd May 1837 | Cumbria Archives - Kendal - Reference - WPR 40/1/2/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | All entries are readable with care despite damage to the spine of the register leading to ragged edges of the pages |
Sedbergh
St Andrew, Yorkshire
Dent St Andrew, Yorkshire |
Dent
St Andrew, Yorkshire
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Andrew, Yorkshire
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Mansergh
St Peter
Kirkby Lonsdale St Mary |
Barbon
St Bartholomew
Kirkby Lonsdale St Mary |
Barbon
St Bartholomew
Kirkby Lonsdale St Mary |
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