Richard/Ann HARWOOD - Warwick Marriage ? (Parish Records)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, August 19, 2012, 15:51 (4471 days ago) @ unknown

I think you miust be right, certainly (and as posted above) searching Richard Harwood and Ann Allen on LDS all the pointers suggest this marriage and subsequent baptisms to be valid and in the Warwick area.

"England, Warwickshire Parish Registers, 1538-1900,"
Name: Richard Harwood
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 06 Nov 1785
Event Place: St Nicholas, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Gender: Male
Age:
Marital Status:
Father:
Mother:
Spouse: Ann Allen
Spouse's Marital Status:
Spouse's Father:
Spouse's Mother:
Film Number: 554733
Digital Folder Number: 4098774
Image Number: 00120

Reading ever-reliable Genuki gives this Gazetteer description which emphasises the importance of the River Avon & later the Canal which opened in 1800, conveniently fitting our families timescales.

"WARWICK, comprises the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Mary, and is a post and market town, municipal and parliamentary borough, and county town of South Warwickshire, locally situated in the Warwick division of Kington hundred, county Warwick, 90 miles N.W. of London by road, 100 by the London and North-Western, and 107½ by the Great Western railway. It is situated on the banks of the river Avon, near the junction of the Birmingham and Napton canals, and closely adjoining the town of Leamington."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)

Click on the link for a much more detailed description.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WAR/Warwick/index.html

Also of possible interest re the history of the Birmingham/Warwick & Napton Canal.
http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/History.php?wpage=WKNC

This Map shows how the Wye & Severn near the Forest were easily navigable from Warwick, see Newnham marked at base of map.
http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/industrial_revolution_series_one_parts_4_and_5/i...