The attached extracts from the registers of 29 parishes were submitted by Sydney Manvers Woolner Meadows (1876-1957) to the East Anglian Daily Times for its Saturday column, East Anglian Miscellany. Under this title, thousands of numbered items were reprinted between 1907 and 1958 and bound in a series of volumes. The "Witnesham marriages" were published in 1952 or (in the case of items 12,473 and 12,561) 1953, as follows:
12,426: marriages at Hemingstone and Swilland
12,434: marriages at Westerfield, Ashbocking and Woodbridge
12,443: marriages at Grundisburgh, Henley and Tuddenham St Martin
12,453: marriages at Ipswich St Mary at Stoke, Ipswich St Mary le Tower, Ipswich St Mary at Elms, Coddenham and Campsey Ash
12,461: marriages at Claydon, Helmingham, Framsden and Akenham
12,467: marriages at Whitton cum Thurleston, Rushmere St Andrew and Monewden
12,473: marriages at Claverton (Somerset) and Melton (Suffolk)
12,561: marriages at Felixstowe, Debenham, Chattisham, Aldham, Flowton, Whatfield and Somersham
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