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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Abberley St Michael

 

The Parish

The parish of Abberley lies in northwestern Worcestershire not too far from its border with neighbouring Herefordshire. Abberley is located about 6 miles southwest of the modern industrial town of Stourport on Severn. Abberley sits about a half mile east of the junction of the A443 (Tenbury Wells to Droitwich) and the B4202 which heads north to Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire. Abberley is a small and compact village built at the foot of Abberley Hill which dominates the village to its south. At the time of this transcript Abberley would have earned its living from a mixed farming regime, equal parts arable & pastoral, on the rich soils of the area. Abberley is drained by numerous small streams which amalgamate to form the Dick Brook, this shortly joins the Severn and heads for the Bristol Channel through its estuary. Abberley is sited at around 130 metres above the sea but the forest-shrouded top of Abberley Hill (less than a half mile south) rises sharply to 283 metres and the area is undulating rather than exceptionally hilly. Abberley parish was of a fairly typical size for the area, it covered just under 2,600 acres and would have supported a population of around 550 parishioners. In Domesday times Abberley was held by Ralph of Tosny and could offer 19 ploughs.


The Church

St Michael's church is nowadays redundant having been replaced by nearby St Mary in the 1850s but it was the church at which these marriages took place. St Michael sits in the heart of the village just to the east of the main "Y" junction in the village. The church fell into ruin but was restored in 1908 to its present form. St Michael has its origins in the Norman period, remaining details of the doorway are clearly of that style. Much else is of the 13th century with later evidence indicating the usual rebuild of 14th & 15th centuries. The restoration re-roofed the chancel but the remainder is just a reminder of the mediaeval building that once was here. There is parking at the small square alongside the junction and entry is by a wooden gateway. The churchyard is roughly circular and St Michael would have been tightly enclosed by trees especially at the western (tower) end, it is adequate to get photographs today thanks to the ruinous state of that end.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 17th June 1754 - 20th October 1812 Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service - Reference - 850 Abberley/5305/1a/Vol.2 Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with X entries per page Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None
2 8th March 1813 - 6th December 1836 Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service - Reference - 850 Abberley/5305/1a/Vol.5 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Pensax St James
Pensax St James
Rock St Peter & St Paul
Rock St Peter & St Paul
Areley Kings St Bartholomew
Stockton on Teme St Andrew
Astley St Peter
Shelsley Beauchamp All Saints
Shelsley Beauchamp All Saints
Great Witley St Michael
Great Witley St Michael

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 17/06/1754 Thomas EDWARDS Single   Elizabeth MURREN Single  
2 06/01/1755 John JONES Single   Susanna REA Single  
3 07/04/1755 Samuel REE Single   Katherine CLARK Single  
4 19/05/1755 Samuel LEWIS Single Stanford On Teme Ann REA Single  
5 28/03/1756 Henry DAVIS Single   Mary GRIFFIN Single  
6 21/02/1757 John HARRIS Single Areley Kings Susanna DIXON Single  
7 12/04/1757 Francis SIMSON Single Kidderminster Susanna KNOT Single  
8 09/10/1757 Edward SPEED Single   Mary SWEETS Widow  
9 10/08/1758 Herbert HERRING Single   Prudence DIXON Single  
10 07/01/1759 John SNELL Single   Mary POWELL Single  
11 12/01/1759 William GRINDLEY Widower   Margaret SOUTHALL Widow  
12 21/06/1759 John TURNER Single Kinlet, Shropshire Ann MASON Single  
13 24/06/1759 John WILKS Single   Mary BAKER Single  
14 16/11/1759 John SAUNDERS Widower   Elizabeth WILDEN Single Burford, Shropshire
15 07/04/1760 Joseph WEST Single Pensax Mary DORREL Single  
16 01/05/1760 John WATKINS Single   Ann GRIFFITHS Single  
17 26/07/1760 William BARKER Single   Elizabeth PRITCHARD Single  
18 21/12/1760 Edward MARKS Single   Hannah BROOKS Single  
19 01/01/1761 Thomas MORRIS Single   Jane TEIGUE Single  
20 26/01/1761 John BLANEY Single   Sarah GUMERY Single  
21 09/03/1761 Isaac BAGNAL Widower   Martha SALAWAY Widow  
22 09/03/1761 Edward PATRICK Single Holt Mary MARKS Single  
23 17/08/1761 Thomas BUNCE Single   Sarah HUBBUL Single  
24 27/09/1761 Thomas CARTER Single   Jane PRITCHARD Single  
25 22/10/1761 John WILKS Single   Mary LEA Single  
26 06/01/1762 Thomas LAWRENCE Single   Ann MORRIS Single  
27 13/06/1762 Samuel THORNLEY Single   Elizabeth BALE Single  
28 13/07/1762 Nathaniel WHARTON Widower Shelsley Beauchamp Mary REA Single  
29 13/11/1762 John LUMBERT Widower   Mary TAYLOR Single  
30 05/05/1763 Thomas MORRIS Single   Ann WYLD Single  
31 25/11/1763 Richard PARTRIDGE Single   Margaret BRYAN Widow  
32 05/02/1764 John CLARK Single Kidderminster Susanna WATMORE Single  
33 26/03/1764 Thomas PALMER Single   Elizabeth MARKS Single  
34 29/05/1764 William WHARTON Single   Ann JAMES Single  
35 05/06/1764 Thomas POUND Single Astley Mary CRUMP Single  
36 08/11/1764 Francis PITT Single   Mary WELLINGTON Single Hartlebury
37 20/04/1765 George Hollington BARKER Single St Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire Mary BRIDGES Single  
38 03/09/1765 Thomas COLLY Single Bromyard, Herefordshire Ann SEVEREN Single  
39 03/11/1765 Thomas TAYLOR Single   Susanna WILKS Single  
40 31/08/1766 Josiah STARIE Single Burford, Shropshire Mary BROADHURST    
41 28/09/1766 Edward MIDDLETON Widower   Martha THOMASON Single  
42 27/10/1766 Stephen WYKE Single Great Witley Elizabeth RANFORD Widow  
43 25/05/1767 Francis ANSLOW Single   Ann BUFTON Widow  
44 07/09/1767 Thomas WIGHT Single St Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire Rebeccah WHEATLEY Single  
45 20/09/1767 Joseph BRIAN Single   Elizabeth COX Single  
46 20/11/1767 Thomas ANDREWS Single   Martha GURRY Single  
47 28/02/1768 Thomas MORRIS Widower   Mary SMITH Single  
48 24/04/1768 John LANE Single   Margaret WILKS Single  
49 24/10/1768 William KNOTT Widower   Hannah PURKINS Widow  
50 12/04/1769 James FLETCHER Widower   Ann CRAN Single Pensax
51 07/02/1770 Samuel BAGNALL Single   Mary MORRIS Single  
52 04/10/1770 Francis DRAPER Single   Mary TURNER Single  
53 21/01/1771 Richard GILES   St Swithun, Worcester Sarah RICKUS Single  
54 24/01/1771 Benjamin HARPER Single   Mary SHAKESHAFT Single  
55 31/12/1771 Edward WILLIAMS Single   Hannah COX Single  
56 06/12/1772 Robert CLEETON Widower   Mary GLAZARD Single  
57 31/12/1773 John WEAVER Single   Ann BRASIER Single  
58 10/05/1774 James HARRIS Single   Dose SEVERN Single  
59 27/09/1774 John MAXWELL Single Kidderminster Penelope SEVERNE Single  
60 10/10/1774 John JAMES Widower   Mary PALMER Single  
61 01/01/1776 Abraham HIGGINS Single   Hannah THOMAS Single  
62 13/05/1776 Mark DUKE Widower   Mary MEREDITH Widow Great Witley
63 17/05/1776 Thomas KING Single   Margery RUD Single  
64 21/05/1776 John ROGERS Single Rock Elizabeth GRIFFITH Single  
65 03/06/1776 Andrew REA Widower   Anne WALFORD Single  
66 18/06/1776 Samuel MONK Single   Martha WILLIS Single  
67 21/05/1777 William GLAZARD     Mary BIRD Single  
68 04/12/1777 Samuel BEACH Single   Mary ROGERS Single  
69 15/12/1777 Thomas BIRCH     Margaret MORRIS Single  
70 16/02/1778 Samuel PARSONS Single   Elizabeth WARD Widow  
71 19/02/1778 Richard GRIFFITH   Ribbesford Mary ASHCROFT    
72 10/12/1778 David DAVIS Widower   Susannah PATRICK Widow Great Witley
73 13/05/1779 Thomas MILLS Single   Anne DIXON Single  
74 16/07/1779 Thomas ASHCRAFT Widower   Susannah COPE Widow  
75 04/10/1779 John HIGGS   Martley Jane TWITCHET    
76 11/05/1780 Charles COOKE   Stockton On Teme Hannah BAYLIS    
77 29/05/1780 James POWELL     Ann GRIFFITHS    
78 28/06/1780 John BISHOP     Elizabeth ROWE    
79 27/12/1780 William VENABLES Single Rock Mary MARTIN Single  
80 26/03/1781 John LUMBERT     Margaret GRINDLE    
81 17/12/1781 William BRASIER Single   Mary COOPER Single  
82 12/02/1782 John PRICE Single   Hannah COPE Single  
83 16/04/1782 Samuel GRAVENOR Single   Anne PAIN Single  
84 24/04/1782 John ALLCUTT Single   Susanna TAYLOR Single  
85 18/06/1782 Rowland WILLIAMS Single   Elizabeth SEVERNE Single  
86 22/04/1783 John MARTIN Single   Margaret SHUPER Single  
87 20/10/1783 James REA Single   Jane MARTIN Single  
88 16/11/1783 James CORBETT Single   Susannah REA Single  
89 26/06/1784 Benjamin TAYLOR Single   Betty TAYLOR Single  
90 14/03/1785 Thomas GRIFFITHS Single   Elizabeth HARRIS Single  
91 29/06/1785 Thomas TOLLEY Single Kempsey Betsy MORRIS    
92 23/02/1786 Samuel LONG Widower   Mary SMITH Single  
93 27/03/1786 Francis GILL Single   Elizabeth BEVAN Single  
94 19/02/1787 John ANGEL Single   Sarah WILLIAMS Single  
95 09/04/1787 Jonathan HIGGINS Single   Mary WILKES Single  
96 06/10/1787 John RENE Single   Jane CATSTREE Single  
97 28/11/1787 George LAVENDER Single   Anne TRICE Single  
98 26/12/1787 Job TAYLOR Single   Sarah SEVERNE Single  
99 21/07/1788 Thomas CARPENTER Single   Sarah GREEN Single  
100 14/04/1789 John PERKINS Single   Sarah PUGH Single  
101 15/06/1789 Thomas WALL Single Upper Sapey, Herefordshire Mary HILL Single  
102 25/07/1789 William SOUTHALL Single   Elizabeth MAYVILL Single  
103 21/04/1791 Edward BOOTON Single   Mary INSOOL Single  
104 16/05/1791 Edward BIVAN Single   Mary STARRY Single  
105 04/09/1791 Thomas HOLMES Single   Anne HANLEY Single  
106 17/01/1792 William KEY Single   Anne RANDLE Single  
107 09/04/1792 William LANE Single   Anne DANKS Single  
108 13/04/1792 Walter KING Widower Martley Anne ROWE Single  
109 19/08/1792 Humphry PREECE Widower   Mary JONES Widow  
110 26/12/1792 John CARPENTER Widower   Martha MIDDLETON Widow  
111 31/12/1792 Edward HILL Single   Mary COLLINS Single  
112 03/04/1793 John DAVIES Single Ribbesford Susannah WITHERS Single  
113 13/05/1794 William TIPTON Single Burford, Shropshire Susannah HYDE Single  
114 03/06/1794 William WILKES Single   Elizabeth CLENT Single  
115 20/11/1794 Thomas WALKER Single Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire Anne HYDE Single  
116 07/04/1795 William PAGET Single Upper Sapey, Herefordshire Anne HILL Single  
116 24/05/1795 James SHERRIFF Single   Martha POWNEY Single  
117 24/07/1796 John HIGGENS Widower   Jane SMOUT Single  
118 23/01/1797 John HUMPHRIES Single   Elizabeth MORRIS Single  
119 23/01/1797 Stephen MORRIS Single   Mary PRICE Single  
120 31/01/1798 Benjamin MORRIS Single   Elizabeth BIRD Single  
121 06/02/1798 John TERRETT Single Redmarley D'Abitot, Gloucestershire Mary HERRING Single  
122 21/04/1799 Alexander HEMMING Single Whitbourne, Herefordshire Sarah STRINGER Widow  
123 23/05/1799 John AWTHORN Single   Elizabeth HEMMING Single  
124 12/07/1799 John GARDNER Single   Sarah NOTT Single  
125 03/11/1799 Thomas ASHCRAFT Single   Rebecca POWNEY Single  
126 03/04/1800 John GRIFFITHS Single   Ann HARRIS Single  
127 07/07/1800 Edward MARKS Single   Ann DALLY Single  
128 01/04/1802 Edward MORRIS Single   Susannah HYDE Single  
129 19/04/1802 John BOURN Single   Elizabeth TURNER Single  
130 26/07/1802 Manuel BRECKNELL Single Kinlet, Shropshire Mary BAGNELL Single  
131 04/05/1803 John HARLEY Widower Kinlet, Shropshire Lucretia GREEN Widow  
132 25/07/1803 Edward JONES Single   Sarah TAYLOR Single  
133 22/08/1803 John HOLLAND Single Wednesbury, Staffordshire Elizabeth BIVAN Single  
134 03/11/1803 Thomas DILLOW Single   Margaret FARMER Widow  
135 11/06/1804 John OWEN Widower Lower Mitton Sarah MIDDLETON Single  
136 08/11/1804 John HARE     Ann BROWN Single  
137 09/04/1805 George HILL Single Great Witley Elizabeth PRICHARD Single  
138 24/10/1805 John TOLLY Single Pensax Elizabeth WAGSTAFF Single  
139 17/02/1806 John BOUGHTON Single   Eleanor MILLS Single  
140 17/03/1806 Richard PRICE Single Ribbesford Elizabeth WILMOT Single  
141 19/03/1806 John HART Single Chaddesley Corbett Anne CAVE Single  
142 16/06/1806 James STALLARD Single Great Witley Mary BROWN Single  
143 18/08/1806 Edward MORRIS Single   Mary ALLCUTT Widow  
144 29/12/1806 Joseph GILES Single Areley Kings Elizabeth HARE Single  
145 26/01/1807 George GROVE Single Stockton On Teme Sarah HANCOX Single  
146 21/05/1807 William BIRD Single   Anne SCOFFIELD Single Martley
147 03/07/1807 Richard STOKES Single   Priscilla RAISTON Single  
148 11/08/1807 John EATON Single Shelsley Beauchamp Mary Anne JONES Single  
149 01/10/1807 Joseph DAVIES Single   Phoebe MARTIN Single  
150 26/04/1808 William HANLEY Single   Elizabeth HOLT Single  
151 14/02/1809 Benjamin EATON Single   Mary HARE Single  
152 30/03/1809 Joseph FREEMAN Single   Martha WILLIAMS Single  
153 06/08/1809 James HIGGINS Single   Susannah EDWARDS Single  
154 21/08/1809 John MIDDLETON Single   Phoebe PAGET Single Great Witley
155 25/12/1810 Joseph FLETCHER Single   Mary HAY Single  
156 22/03/1811 John WARRIN Single   Sarah WINSLOW Single  
157 24/04/1811 William SHEPHERD Single Shelsley Beauchamp Hannah TAYLOR Single  
158 16/05/1811 Samuel CANE Single Belbroughton Elizabeth BISHOP Single  
159 27/06/1811 James MILNER Single Pensax Susanna BRIMAL Single  
160 10/09/1811 Francis CRADDOCK Single Pensax Anne MILLS Single  
161 20/10/1812 Francis YARNOLD Single   Anne HAY Single  
1 08/03/1813 Nathaniel WILLIAMS Single   Sarah DEANE Single  
2 02/04/1813 Richard COOK Single Shelsley Beauchamp Anne PRITCHARD Single  
3 13/05/1813 Richard HINKSMAN Single Areley Kings Sarah FARMER Single  
4 22/02/1814 John COOPER Widower Great Witley Hannah MOLE Widow  
5 02/03/1814 Joseph FIDOE Widower   Sarah JONES Single Martley
6 30/03/1815 John HARE Widower   Elizabeth BIRCH Single  
7 27/04/1815 Thomas BUNCE Single   Cicely HARRIS Single  
8 23/09/1815 John BROMLEY Widower   Sarah OWEN Widow  
9 26/12/1815 William WARD Single   Anne WEAVER Single  
10 18/04/1816 Joseph MORRIS Single   Hannah SHIPLEY Single  
11 27/08/1816 John ALLEN Widower   Anne THOMAS Single  
12 07/04/1817 Thomas PUGH Single Neen Savage, Shropshire Anne BRAZIER Single  
13 29/07/1817 Thomas COTTERELL Single   Amy MILLARD Single  
14 26/11/1817 John BIRCH Single   Anne BIRCH Single  
15 16/02/1818 William GLAZARD Single   Elizabeth THOMAS Single  
16 17/09/1818 Thomas EDWARDS Single   Mary BISHOP Single  
17 06/05/1820 Edward MANTLE Single   Anne PALMER Single  
18 11/05/1820 Samuel JONES Widower   Sarah GLAZARD Single  
19 27/03/1821 Thomas COWELL Single Rock Anne GILL Single  
20 20/08/1821 Edward MOWWIS Widower   Hester DUKESELL Single  
21 19/02/1822 John EVANS Single Pensax Jane COCUM Single  
22 03/06/1822 John BOOTON Single   Martha COWNLEY Single  
23 29/10/1822 James COWNLEY Single   Anne BOOTON Single  
24 26/12/1822 Joseph TOLLY Single   Mary EDWARDS Single  
25 28/01/1823 John PALMER Single   Sarah BENTLEY Single  
26 22/05/1823 John EDWARDS Single   Hester TOLLY Single  
27 27/08/1823 William BIRCH Single   Sarah WINWOOD Single Areley Kings
28 14/10/1823 George BAUGH Widower Shelsley Beauchamp Elizabeth DAVIS Single  
29 01/12/1823 Samuel ROBERTS Single   Eleanor ANGELL Single  
30 12/02/1824 James MORRIS Widower   Anne HOPCUTT Single  
31 12/04/1824 Thomas WATKINS Single Kidderminster Elizabeth BISHOP Single  
32 31/05/1824 Joseph POTTER Single   Anne HOLMES Single  
33 30/06/1824 James WILSON Single   Jane HOLMES Single  
34 27/12/1824 Thomas MORRIS Single   Sarah COX Single  
35 26/04/1825 William BENTLEY Single   Harriet POTTER Single  
36 04/07/1825 Edward MORRIS Single   Sarah BOOTON Single  
37 11/04/1826 John WILKES Single   Anne RAVENELL Single  
38 24/04/1826 Joseph HOLMES Single   Anne ALLEN Single  
39 15/05/1826 Allen FREEMAN Single Upper Arley, Staffordshire Anne TAYLOR Single  
40 18/07/1826 Thomas HOLMES Single   Elizabeth JONES Single  
41 28/12/1826 William BRECKNELL Single   Eliza THORP Single  
42 25/02/1827 Thomas HALL Single   Elizabeth HOWELL Single  
43 24/05/1827 Samuel BRADLEY Single   Anne STONE Single  
44 18/06/1827 James MORRIS Single   Anne EDWARDS Single  
45 17/11/1827 Thomas THORP Single   Elizabeth HORTON Single Great Witley
46 10/05/1828 Samuel HADEN Widower Worcester Ann VALE Single  
47 29/07/1828 Thomas James MALING Widower Birchanger, Essex Jemima BROMLEY Single  
48 15/09/1828 John MORGAN Single   Mary AUSTINS Widow  
49 18/12/1828 Philip JONES Single   Elizabeth YORK Single  
50 01/01/1829 Henry Sommers COCKS   Leigh Frances Mercy BROMLEY    
51 08/01/1829 William ALLEN Single   Mary MIDDLETON Single  
52 26/03/1829 William GLAZARD Widower   Mary BOOTON Single  
53 13/04/1830 James HODGES Single   Elizabeth BAILEY Single  
54 21/04/1830 Solomon LEEK Widower   Sarah WOOLLEY Single  
55 11/04/1831 Henry BEST Single   Susanna LANE Single  
56 09/05/1831 Thomas GREEN Single Alveley, Shropshire Mary GILL Single  
57 28/02/1832 Abel JONES Widower Astley Mary HOWELL Single  
58 24/09/1832 Joseph PRICE Single   Sarah OWEN Single  
59 06/08/1833 William PRICE Single   Anne COCUM Single  
60 14/04/1834 Edward PRICE Single   Elizabeth HAMMOND Single  
61 10/06/1834 Thomas DOWDING   St Nicholas, Worcester Mary LANE    
62 29/09/1834 George QUARTERMAN Single   Sarah BROAD Single  
63 29/09/1834 George HARE Single   Mary BOWEN Single  
64 20/10/1834 Solomon TEDBITT     Susanna EDWARDS    
65 03/07/1835 Joseph EDWARDS Single   Elizabeth GARBETT Single Pensax
66 20/10/1835 Edward PRICE Widower   Anne HOLMES Widow  
67 06/11/1835 Richard TINTON Widower   Mary PERKINS Single  
68 16/02/1836 Francis LINGEN Single Rock Mary WHITE Single  
69 12/04/1836 Samuel HARRIS Single   Mary JONES Single  
70 30/05/1836 John Blainey HAMMOND Single   Anne RIDLEY Single  
71 14/06/1836 Henry GRIFFIN Single Niton, Hampshire Frances Sophia WELSH Widow  
72 05/12/1836 John HORN Single Kidderminster Elizabeth JAMES Single  
73 06/12/1836 James WALL Single Eastham Hannah TOLLEY Single  

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