England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe city of Wakefield (for city status was granted to the former market town in 1888 and All Saints became a cathedral) lies in the West Riding of Yorkshire about 7 miles south of the vast conurbation of Leeds and 30 miles west of Yorkshire's capital of York Wakefield is located where the A61 road heading from Leeds to Barnsley crosses the River Calder, the town is also the meeting point of roads from many other directions converging on the Calder crossing point. It was this crossing which led to Wakefield's early development from small village to regional market. The town became associated with production of drapery and was the principal centre for the Yorkshire clothing trade prior to the development of Bradford & Leeds. As that trade fell back mining of the local coal became a staple of the town albeit Wakefield never showed the super-growth of many of the West Yorkshire towns following the industrial revolution. Today Wakefield is a city, albeit not trumpeted as by some places, which remains an important market and shopping centre for its region. Wakefield is surrounded and passed through by many modern communications, the Calder & Hebble navigation from the canal era, the rail line from London to Leeds and the modern motorways of the M1 and M62 all pass through or close by the town making it an attractive place to live or from where to commute. The Calder drains Wakefield to the east, quickly joining the Aire at Castleford and making its way to the North Sea through the Humber Estuary. Wakefield is sited at around 40 metres above the sea and its valley setting means land is of a similar height for some distance only gently rolling to local heights of 70-80 metres or so within a few miles of the city. Wakefield parish, which includes the chapelries of Stanley & Horbury which being licensed have their own pages, as well as that of Wakefield St John licensed from 1795, is extensive and typically large northern parish covering just over 9,300 acres and supporting a population in the region of 25,000 parishioners. In Domesday times Wakefield was a relatively small place, held directly by the King, himself, it could offer just 13 ploughs as well as a small woodland. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 25th March 1754 - 3rd June 1760 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield -
Reference - WDP3/3/1 |
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 | 9th June 1760 - 24th February 1766 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/2 | 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 |
3 | 24th February 1766 - 10th April 1774 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/3 | 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 |
4 | 14th April 1774 - 2nd August 1779 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/4 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 23rd August 1779 - 30th September 1793 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/5 | Nonstandard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register, it is nonstandard in having 5 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 1st October 1793 - 28th December 1812 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/6 | 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 |
7 | 4th January 1813 - 26th November 1821 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/7 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
8 | 26th November 1821 - 30th December 1829 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/8 | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard in not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
9 | 4th January 1830 - 27th June 1837 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP3/3/9 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
East
Ardsley St Michael
Wakefield St John |
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Normanton
All Saints
Warmfield St Peter |
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Horbury St Peter & St Leonard
Thornhill St Michael |
Horbury
St Peter & St Leonard
Sandal Magna St Helen |
Warmfield
St Peter
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