England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Normanton lies in the central part of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the southwest of the overall county. Normanton is a large village lying about 3 miles northeast of the town of Wakefield. Normanton formerly sat on the A655 road which links Wakefield with Castleford but now, thankfully takes traffic to the south of Normanton by a bypass. Normanton sits is gently rolling landscape on the southern side of the valley of the Calder, the main employment at the time of this transcript would have been a mixture of arable agriculture and coal mining. Nowadays Normanton has sprawled over a wide area but is an area of declining heavy industries. Normanton grew substantially following the arrival of the Midland railway, it became something of a major junction and thus a place where folk changed services and lines, a service industry arose to service those changing people. Normanton still has its railway today and other major arteries cross the parish notably the M62 east/west motorway which passes within a mile of the village. A number of small brooks drain the parish northwards to the Calder which is headed eastwards to meet the Aire and thence the North Sea through the Humber Estuary. Normanton stands at around 40 metres above sea level some 30 metres above the level of the Calder but in gently undulating country. Normanton parish was fairly typically sized for lowland Yorkshire, it covered around 4,000 acres and unusually for this area was not divided into chapelries, the parish would have supported around 1,300 parishioners. In Domesday time Normanton was held directly by the King and was a smaller place indeed, it offered just 3 ploughs as well as small meadows and woodlands. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 4th October 1754 - 2nd November 1812 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield -
Reference - WDP151/1/3/1 |
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 |
2 | 15th June 1813 - 27th June 1837 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP151/1/3/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Methley
St Oswald
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Methley
St Oswold
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Wakefield
All Saints
Warmfield St Peter |
Featherstone
All Saints
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Warmfield
St Peter
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