England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Kington St Michael lies in northwestern Wiltshire not too far from its border with neighbouring Gloucestershire. Kington St Michael is a substantial village located about 3 miles northwest of the market town of Chippenham. Kington St Michael, a long straggle of a village running roughly southeast to northwest, sits around a mile west of the A429 which connects Chippenham with Malmesbury. Today Kington St Michael is a popular commuting centre, sitting, as it does, just a couple of miles south of the modern M4 with quick links into nearby Bristol & Bath as well as locally. At the time of this transcript Kington St Michael had a mixed economy, underpinned by pastoral farming a substantial business in the local honey-coloured limestone, for building stone, kept many busy in the many quarries. Kington St Michael is drained, rather paradoxically, eastwards by numerous small streams heading towards the Avon and reaching the same east of Sutton Benger. Here the waters turns north and then back west to reach the Bristol Channel through the Avon Gorge and the port of Bristol. Kington St Michael is sited on a rather flat limestone plateau at about 100 metres above the sea, land rises almost gently to the escarpment about 10 miles west, local heights rise to less than 20 metres above the village within a couple of miles. Kington St Michael parish was fairly typically sized for the area, it covered about 4,000 acres and would have supported a population of just under 1,200 parishioners. In Domesday times Kington St Michael was much smaller, held by Ralph of Mortimer it could offer just a single plough, small meadows & woodland but there was a mill present. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 13th May 1754 - 25th December 1768 | Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - Reference - PR/170/1/9 | 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 | Readable despite being scruffy - the register suffers from a printing defect with only alternate folios pre-stamped with the grid for entering marriages |
2 | 31st January 1769 - 13th April 1801 | Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - Reference - PR/170/1/10 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 5th July 1801 - 13th December 1812 | Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - Reference - PR/170/1/11 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 23rd March 1813 - 27th February 1837 | Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - Reference - PR/170/1/12 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Leigh
Delamere St Margaret
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Stanton
St Quintin St Giles
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Stanton
St Quintin St Giles
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Yatton
Keynell St Margaret
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Chippenham
St Andrew
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Chippenham
St Andrew
Hardenhuish St Nicholas |
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