Easton Royal Holy Trinity

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Marriages 1754 - 1837
Easton Royal Holy Trinity

The Parish

The parish of Easton Royal lies in eastern Wiltshire about 3 miles east of the small market town of Pewsey. Easton Royal is a long strip of a village which lies and mainly south of the B3087 road which connects Pewsey through to the A338 at Burbage. Easton Royal sits on a shelf of land below the high chalk down-lands to its south, a shelf that was followed, further north, by the Kennet & Avon Canal in crossing over the watershed between its two rivers. Easton Royal came to some prominence in the 13th century when a Trinitarian friary was sited here serving poor travellers, the friary and its church were demolished following the dissolution of Henry VIII and Easton Royal sank back to becoming a normal farming village. The area had a mixed farming regime with sheep on the chalk highlands and arable in the lower portions, today much is arable with vast fields of cereals and oil seed. Easton Royal is drained westwards by the Deane Water which soon joins the infant Avon making its way through Bath & Bristol to the Bristol Channel through the famous gorge. Easton Royal is sited at around 140 metres above the sea and land rises to the high downs to the south, reaching 238 metres on nearby Milton Hill Clump. Wiltshire's chalk-lands parishes are often fairly extensive but Easton Royal parish was more typical of a lowland one, covering 2,200 acres it would have supported a population of close to 550 parishioners. Easton Royal is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book.

The Church

Holy Trinity church is situated at the southern end of the village a few hundred metres before the single lane peters out to tracks and footpaths rising to the downs. After the dissolution and the demolishing of the former friary church Easton Royal was left bereft of a church. Holy Trinity was built in 1591 in a late Perpendicular style to meet the needs of the villagers. The initial church was small and lacking a tower, the present southeastern tower being added in 1853 as part of a general refresh by the Victorians. The late 16th century is a rare date for a church but the building clearly did not excite Pevsner whose description is fairly short and purely descriptive. The church sits just as the properties start to disappear with open fields to its east, a small parking area sits to the north where lies the entrance through the flint & brick wall. Sadly a large tree occupies the normal southeastern aspect removing that favoured line from the photographers palette, on a sunny day a tricky building to adequately capture.

The Records

Register No	Covering Dates	Deposited With	Register Style	Quality Standard	Comments
1	31st March 1755 - 28th July 1812	Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre- Reference - PR116/1/7	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	25th February 1813 - 23rd March 1837	Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre- Reference - PR116/1/8	Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register	Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number	Fading of the register may lead to a few misreads

Wootton Rivers St Andrew	Wootton Rivers St Andrew	Burbage All Saints
Milton Lilbourne St Peter		Burbage All Saints
Milton Lilbourne St Peter	Collingbourne Kingston St Mary	Collingbourne Kingston 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
1	31/03/1755	Michael	CLARKE	Single		Frances	DORE	Single
2	28/08/1755	John	WICKS	Single		Susanna	GOODAL	Single
3	23/09/1755	William	JENNINGS	Widower		Mary	WEEVEN	Single
4	18/10/1755	William	TEAGUE	Single		Mary	STURGESS	Single
5	30/05/1756	Thomas	NEALE	Widower		Amey	STAGG	Single
6	09/10/1756	Stephen	LICKMAN	Single	Pewsey	Mary	WHITE	Single
7	19/04/1758	John	STAGG	Single		Mary	STAGG	Single
8	01/06/1758	John	GARLICK	Single	Tockenham	Jane	CANNING	Single
9	06/05/1759	Joseph	HOPGOOD	Single	Tidcombe	Jane	WHITE	Single
10	13/10/1760	William	DOWSE	Single		Mary	WEBB	Single
11	19/10/1760	John	HOLMES	Single		Elizabeth	JENNINGS	Single
12	15/12/1760	John	MILLS	Single	Northleach, Gloucestershire	Elizabeth	LAWRENCE
13	29/06/1761	Richard	HAMLIN	Single		Edith	FOACH	Single
14	25/04/1762	George	JACKMAN	Single	Collingbourne Ducis	Elizabeth	LEE	Single
15	13/01/1763	John	TARRANT	Single	Huish	Mary	GOODMAN	Single
16	12/04/1763	John	KEW	Single		Elizabeth	SAYER	Single
17	03/05/1763	James	COMPTON	Single	Milton Lilborne	Mary	STAGG	Single
18	12/05/1763	John Bennet	COLE	Single		Thomasin	PYKE	Single
19	07/06/1763	John	HUNTER	Single	Collingbourne Kingston	Sarah	CRIPS	Single
20	15/08/1763	Simon	HICKMAN	Single		Sarah	LEE	Single
21	21/10/1763	Joseph	PEATY	Single		Mary	PARSONS	Single
22	29/10/1765	Samuel	HILMAN	Single		Mary	CHANDLER	Single
23	26/07/1766	Joseph	BIGGS	Widower	Huish	Martha	STAGG	Single
24	13/08/1766	John	CULLEY	Single		Ann	HAZEL	Single
25	19/10/1767	Edward	LOVELOCK			Ann	PYKE	Single
26	24/11/1767	John	WEST			Sarah	GLASS	Single
27	09/02/1768	Thomas	SHEFFERD		Collingbourne Kingston	Susannah	NEWMAN	Single
28	03/12/1768	William	BLACKMAN		Everleigh	Bethia	FIELDS	Single
29	02/01/1769	Abraham	STAGG			Ann	LEWIS	Single
30	19/06/1769	Turpin	LEIGH		Kent	Phoebe	BOSWELL	Single
31	29/06/1769	John	MIST		Collingbourne Kingston	Jenny	PYKE	Single
32	07/08/1769	Thomas	BRINE			Anne	JENNINGS	Single
33	18/09/1769	John	BARTHOLOMEW		Burbage	Sarah	PAVEY	Single
34	10/10/1769	John	STAGG			Elizabeth	CULIMER	Single
35	07/06/1770	Stephen	GODDARD			Jane	WILKINS	Single
36	27/11/1770	John	BUTCHER		Rushall	Betty	GOODMAN	Single
37	03/12/1770	James	STAGG			Ann	WESTALL	Single
38	08/12/1770	William	GILES		Kintbury, Berkshire	Ann	PYKE	Single
39	30/10/1771	Edward	GLASS			Mary	GAINNE	Single
40	20/04/1772	Robert	KEW		Pewsey	Elizabeth	SWEETMAN	Single
41	21/05/1772	Giles	HERNE	Single		Sarah	STAGG	Single
42	08/08/1772	Edward	LINE			Amy	STAGG	Single
43	24/01/1773	John	STAGG		Milton Lilborne	Mary	NAISH	Single
44	07/10/1773	Richard	BRIDEWELL	Widower	Pewsey	Elizabeth	CULLY	Single
45	06/12/1774	John	BULL			Millicent	FIELD	Single
	23/09/1775	Thomas	SHEPPERD			Grace	FIELDS
	03/09/1776	William	SEEMES	Single		Frances	GLASS	Single
	14/11/1776	John	SWANBOROUGH	Single	Pewsey	Mary	WILKINS	Single
	02/12/1776	John	CHANDLER			Mary	HAWKINS
	07/01/1777	Robert	LOVELUCK	Single		Mary	WEEKS	Single
	21/04/1777	Abraham	WHITE			Ann	STAGG
	21/11/1777	William	COX	Single		Ann	WILKINS	Single
	05/01/1778	William	STAGG	Single	Collingbourne Kingston	Elizabeth	SOP	Single
	07/07/1778	John	WEEKS			Mary	JENNINGS
	05/08/1778	Thomas	JAY			Elizabeth	FIELD
	23/04/1780	William	HAWKINS	Single		Mary	PHILEMORE	Single
	30/04/1780	John	BESANT	Single		Lucy	SWEETMAN	Single
	01/06/1780	Jacob	FERRIS	Single	Great Bedwin	Sarah	HAWKINS	Single
	10/10/1780	George	ALLIN	Single		Betty	TUCKER	Single
	31/10/1780	John	HAMMOND	Single		Ann	STAGG	Single
	06/11/1780	William	SAYER	Single		Betty	CHANDLER	Single
	11/12/1780	Philip	NEAL		Burbage	Sarah	STAGG	Single
	28/08/1781	William	HENDY	Single		Sarah	STONE	Single	Burbage
	12/11/1781	William	WHITBREAD	Single		Mary	KIMBER	Single
	06/12/1781	James	UNDERWOOD		Potterne	Sarah	EVERET
	18/05/1782	William	TUCKER	Single		Ann	JENNINGS	Single
	05/08/1782	John	SAUNDERS	Single	Wilcot	Ann	ROSIER	Single
	12/12/1782	Moses	SIDDIARD	Single		Amey	SEA	Single
	24/12/1782	John	STRETCH	Single	Milton Lilborne	Mary	GLASS	Single
	08/05/1783	John	PEARCE	Single		Mary	CARPENTER	Single	Ramsbury
	01/12/1783	Thomas	GOODMAN	Widower		Elizabeth	PIKE	Single
	19/01/1784	Francis	MEREWETHER	Single		Ann	NEALE	Single
	27/04/1784	Thomas	HOSKINS	Single		Mary	WEEKS	Single
	10/05/1784	John	PEIRCE	Single		Jane	HAWKINS	Single
	13/10/1784	Jonathan	POWEL	Single	Wootton Rivers	Mary	WILKINS	Single
	19/10/1784	John	WHITEBREAD	Single		Betty	SPACKMAN	Single
	04/04/1785	John	HEAD	Single		Sarah	MATTHEWS	Single
	05/09/1785	William	SPACKMAN	Single		Sarah	CULLEY	Single
	26/09/1785	Thomas	JAY	Single		Betty	NEWMAN	Single
	12/10/1785	James	FELPS	Single		Jane	HAMSHIRE	Single
	12/10/1785	Philip	DOWST	Single		Jane	LOVELOCK	Single
	13/11/1785	Richard	COLLINS	Single		Mary	SWEATMAN	Single
	16/01/1786	Thomas	SPANSWICK	Single		Philis	SMART	Single
	13/11/1786	James	WATTS	Single	Potterne	Elizabeth	PEIRCE	Single
	16/02/1787	Simon	TARRANT	Single		Elizabeth	HOLMS	Single
	14/10/1787	Leonard	COZENS	Single		Edith	HAMLIN	Single
	20/12/1787	John	GILBERT	Single		Mary	HOLMES	Single
	05/02/1788	John	STAGG	Widower		Jane	HAZARD	Single
	10/04/1788	Thomas	EDMUNDS	Single		Elizabeth	BEWLEY	Single	Wilcot
	16/10/1788	William	CULLY	Single		Ann	MEREWEATHER	Single
	15/09/1789	William	WEIGHT	Single		Elizabeth	TARRANT	Widow
	13/10/1789	Thomas	HISCOCK	Single		Ann	WEST	Single
	23/11/1789	William	CULLEY	Single		Betty	CULLEY	Single
	05/05/1790	John	HOLMS	Widower		Mary	CUE	Single
	05/05/1790	William	FARMER	Single		Ann	HOLMS	Single
	08/06/1791	Thomas	GODARD	Single		Sarah	KIMBER	Single
	14/07/1791	Henry	WHITEHEART	Single		Jane	PARSONS	Single
	12/10/1791	George	WEIGHT	Single		Mary	STAGG	Single
	13/10/1791	Stephen	GILFORD	Single		Jane	CIMBER	Single
	20/02/1792	Thomas	POPE	Single		Hannah	SMITH	Single
	22/03/1792	William	SOP	Single		Elizabeth	CULLY	Single
	05/04/1792	Robert	WAKEFIELD		Quenington, Gloucestershire	Mary	BRITON	Single
	25/07/1793	Abraham	WHITE	Widower		Elizabeth	SELWOOD	Single
	11/08/1793	John	BRINSDON	Single	St Peter & St Paul, Marlborough	Mary	PECK	Single
	29/09/1793	William	WHITE	Single		Ann	STAGG	Single
	03/03/1795	John	BARNETT	Single	Great Bedwin	Ann	MARTIN	Single
	04/07/1795	William	IRESON	Single		Avis	LOVELOCK	Single
	20/09/1795	John	LIDDIARD	Single		Elizabeth	TURCK	Single
	09/11/1795	William	KENT	Single		Amey	SMART	Single
	08/08/1796	William	SMITH	Single	St George, Orcheston	Mary	GODARD	Single
	26/04/1797	Robert	MEAD	Single	Milton Lilborne	Elizabeth	SMITH	Single
	13/10/1797	John	BISHOP	Single	Shalbourne	Mary	CULLY	Single
	16/10/1797	Harry	TARRANT	Single	Milton Lilborne	Elizabeth	KIMBER	Single
	05/03/1798	John	PAGE	Single		Jane	GODDARD	Single
	11/10/1798	John	SMITH	Single		Mary	STAGG	Single	Burbage
	22/10/1798	Benjamin	BROOKES	Single		Ann	PEAD	Single
	29/10/1798	John	CULLEY	Single		Ann	HATCHETT	Single
	15/07/1799	John	ELIATT	Single		Sarah	LOVELOCK	Single
	12/08/1799	William	LOVELOCK	Single		Susanna	GIDDINGS	Single
	13/01/1800	Thomas	SMITH	Single		Sarah	RIX	Single
	06/10/1800	Francis	CULLEY	Single		Ann	MILLS	Single
	25/02/1801	George	WAITE	Widower		Maria	HILLMAN	Single
	18/02/1802	Stephen	GODDARD			Mary	CHANDLER
	06/12/1802	Stephen	CULLY	Single		Hannah	FISHER	Single
	02/06/1803	John	MASLEN	Single	Preshute	Elisabeth	JENNINGS	Single
	03/11/1803	John	SPACKMAN	Single		Amy	GODDARD	Single
	05/05/1806	Nathaniel	RIX	Single		Ann	SPANSWICK	Single
	29/07/1806	William	WAIT	Single		Sarah	WHITBREAD	Single
	12/10/1806	Richard	GOODMAN	Single		Elizabeth	CUCKER	Single
	24/11/1806	James	GODDARD	Single		Elizabeth	BATT	Single
	20/05/1807	Thomas	PEARCE	Single		Elizabeth	HAWKINS	Single
	08/09/1807	William	ROSIER	Widower		Sarah	PLANK	Widow
	02/05/1808	William	HAZELAND	Single		Elizabeth	BRUCE	Single
	17/10/1808	William	GILFORD		Kingsclere, Hampshire	Ann	SMITH
	30/10/1809	William	PAGE		Milton Lilborne	Elizabeth	TUCKER
	14/03/1811	Robert	KEW	Single		Mary	WHITEBREAD	Single
	23/09/1811	Thomas	LAMPFIELD	Single		Lucy	WHITEBREAD	Single
	14/10/1811	William	TUCKER	Single		Harriot	HOLMES	Single
	28/10/1811	John	GODDARD	Single		Avis	HARRIS	Single
	01/06/1812	David	MARTIN	Single		Jane	LESTER	Single
	28/07/1812	James	FARR	Single		Elizabeth	BULL	Widow
1	25/02/1813	William	BLAKE	Single	Burbage	Mary	SMITH	Single
2	18/10/1813	Charles	PEARCE	Single		Martha	BUNCE	Single
3	31/01/1814	William	RIDER	Single	Speen, Berkshire	Charlotte	PIERCE	Single
4	29/08/1814	William	MILLS	Single		Jane	AIRES	Single
7	17/07/1815	William	GODDARD			Mary	BROWN
8	07/08/1815	Stephen	SMITH	Single		Mary	FLETCHER
9	07/08/1815	William	HAMBLIN	Widower		Sarah	WEST	Single
10	30/03/1817	Samuel	FLIPANCE	Single		Mary	FARMER	Single
11	05/05/1817	Edward	SHEPHERD	Single	Huish	Hannah	WAITE	Single
12	17/10/1817	George	EDMONDS	Single	Fittleton	Phillis	TUCKER	Single
13	12/01/1818	Robert	KIMBER	Widower		Elisabeth	MASLEN	Widow
14	04/04/1818	Henry	PEARCE			Elizabeth	LIDDIARD
15	16/11/1818	Robert	GOODMAN	Single		Mary	PAGE	Single
16	25/01/1819	William	CULLEY	Widower		Elizabeth	MEAD	Widow
17	18/10/1819	James	BRIDGMANT	Single		Lucy	GODDARD	Single
18	02/11/1819	John	PEARCE	Single		Mary	GODDARD	Single
19	12/04/1821	Job	CHANDLER	Single	Burbage	Fanny	SEAGER
20	02/09/1821	Henry	TOWLER	Single	Collingbourne Ducis	Eleanor	COZENS	Single
21	22/10/1821	William	SPANSWICK	Single		Harriet	WEST	Single
22	03/06/1822	William	STONE	Single		Elizabeth	CULLEY	Single
23	09/12/1822	Thomas	CHOULES			Mary	HOSKINS
25	14/07/1823	John	PAGE			Amy	SPANSWICK
26	06/11/1823	John	DOWST	Single		Ann	SMITH	Single
28	19/01/1824	Thomas	GOODMAN			Mary Ann	BARRETT
27	05/10/1824	William	WAIT	Widower		Jane	CHANDLER	Single
29	21/10/1824	Thomas	MILLS			Patience	GOODMAN	Single
30	18/04/1825	Daniel	STEVENS			Grace	GOODMAN
31	27/03/1826	John	MASON			Martha	LESTER
32	16/10/1826	John	DOWSE	Widower		Elizabeth	WEBB	Single
33	09/11/1826	John	BROOKS			Sarah	SHAW
34	27/11/1826	Isaac	CHOULES		Great Bedwin	Elizabeth	WAIT
35	16/04/1827	James	GODDARD			Lucy	JACKMAN
37	22/11/1827	Robert	GALE		Burbage	Jane	SPANSWICK
36	31/12/1827	Stephen	GUILFORD			Sarah	MORSE		St Peter & St Paul, Marlborough
40	29/04/1828	Benjamin	GREGORY		Aldbourne	Mary	GILBERT
41	01/05/1828	Thomas	WAIT			Eliza	KIMBER		Burbage
42	09/06/1828	William	STEVENS	Widower		Mary	KENT	Single
43	21/10/1828	William	WOODHAM		Great Bedwin	Elizabeth	WHITEBREAD
44	20/09/1830	William	HILLMAN	Widower		Elizabeth	GUILFORD	Widow
45	10/02/1831	William	WHITEBREAD	Single		Elizabeth	TUCKER	Single
46	16/05/1831	Michael	ANNETTS	Single	Little Bedwin	Rose	WAITE	Single
47	13/10/1832	William	BRICE	Single	Houghton, Hampshire	Elizabeth	MARTIN	Single
48	01/11/1832	William	SHAW	Single		Ann	PEARCE	Single
49	06/11/1832	Lazarus	ROSIER	Single		Phoebe	EDWARDS	Single
50	31/12/1832	William	SLOPER	Single		Ann	KEW	Single
51	02/05/1833	Solomon	GUILFORD	Single		Lucy	KIMBER	Single
52	22/07/1833	John	GOODMAN	Single		Anne	PEARCE	Single
53	07/10/1833	Thomas	SMITH	Single		Elizabeth	PEARCE	Widow
54	07/11/1833	James	SLOPER	Widower		Jane	HAWKINS	Single
55	02/12/1833	William	WEST	Single		Mary	PAVEY	Single
56	05/04/1834	John	GUILFORD	Single		Ann	PLANK	Single
57	26/05/1834	William	LANSLEY	Single		Jane	CULLEY	Single
58	09/06/1834	Samuel	HALSEY	Single		Maria	GODDARD	Single
59	18/08/1834	John	BISHOP	Widower		Jane	POTTER	Single
60	23/10/1834	William	BROOKS	Single		Elizabeth	JAMES	Single
61	22/01/1835	John	PEARCE	Single		Elizabeth	BAYNES	Single
62	05/05/1835	John	YATES	Single		Priscilla	HILLMAN	Single
63	17/10/1836	Stephen	KIMBER	Single	Great Bedwin	Hester	GLASS	Single
64	08/03/1837	John	YATES	Widower		Patience	MILLS	Widow
65	23/03/1837	Elias	DOWSE	Single		Mary Ann	BRISTOW	Single

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