Marston Sicca (Long Marston) Warwickshire Family History Guide
Marston Sicca or Long Marston as it is more generally known as, is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Marston Sicca was transferred from Gloucestershire to Warwickshire in 1931. It is now more generally known as Long Marston.
Parish church: St James the Greater
Parish registers begin: 1680
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Clifford Chambers Gloucestershire
- Quinton Gloucestershire
- Weston on Avon Gloucestershire
- Dorsington Gloucestershire
- Pebworth Gloucestershire
- Welford Gloucestershire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MARSTON-SICCA, or LONG MARSTON, a village and a parish in the district of Stratford-on-Avon and county of Gloucester.
The village stands on an affluent of the river Avon, adjacent to the Honeybourne and Stratford railway, within 2 miles of the boundaries with Warwick and Worcester, 5½ miles SW of Stratford-on-Avon; consists of two parts, called respectively Marston-Sicca and Long Marston; contains a house in which Charles II. lay concealed in the flight from Worcester; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stratford-on-Avon, both of the name of Long Marston.
The parish comprises 1,680 acres. Real property, £2,848. Pop., 371. Houses, 80. The manor belongs to F. Tomes, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £430. Patron, F. Tomes, Esq. The church consists of nave and chancel, with a tower, and contains an old Norman font. There are an endowed school with £101 a year, and charities £6.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers
Marriages at Marston Sicca 1680-1812
Marriages at Marston Sicca 1680-1812 – UK Genealogy Archives
Transcriptions
Marston Sicca (Long Marston) Marriages 1800 to 1812
Thomas Kings, p. Wotton Wawen, & Ann Ward, lic., 17 Apr. 1800
John Ballinger, p. Mickleton, & Hannah Gould, 26 Dec. 1801
Henry Parsons, p. Hasellor, co. Warwick, & Elizabeth Walton, 12 Jan. 1802
William Heekes, hamlet of Broad Marston, p. Pebworth, & Elizabeth Tomes, lic., 10 June 1802
William Skinner, hamlet of Holy Cross, p. Pershore, & Elizabeth Hopkins, lic., 4 Nov. 1802
Jacob Copestake & Hester Hews, 12 Oct. 1803
John Grant, p. Haselor, & Patience Mathews, 18 Oct. 1803
John Mosely, p. Pebworth, & Ann Clark, 21 Mar. 1804
John Pardoe & Ann Gibbs, 31 Oct. 1805
Anthony Unitt & Mary Turbit, 14 Dec. 1805
John Wesson & Elizabeth Savage, 24 Nov. 1807
William Web & Mary Iron, 8 Feb. 1808
Ephraim Churchly, p. Pebworth, & Martha Sheppey, 15 May 1809
Thomas Collicott & Elizabeth Davis, 16 Oct. 1809
William Hoel & Elizabeth Hostins, 6 Nov. 1810
George Gardner & Elizabeth Davis, 21 Nov. 1810
Richard Watters & Elizabeth Goff, 31 Oct. 1811
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol X. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1905
Marston Sicca (Long Marston) Marriages 1780 to 1799
George Grimmit & Sarah Webb, 14 Feb. 1780
John Beck, p. Abberton, & Sarah Harris, 13 Feb. 1781
William Ward & Elizabeth Snedwell, 26 Feb. 1781
James Compton & Margaret Corbett, lic., 19 Nov. 1781
Richard Savage, p. Pebworth, & Ann Souch, lic., 22 Nov. 1781
John Symmonds, p. St. Martin’s, London, & Alice Compton, 23 Apr. 1782
Samuel Jones, p. Bidford, & Elizabeth Jones, lic., 28 July 1782
John Copestake & Ann Brown, 14 Oct. 1782
William Holtham, p. Cleeve Prior, & Mary Wilkins, 30 Sept. 1783
John Gregory, p. Aynho, co. Northampton, & Betty Webb, 19 Apr. 1784
William Ryland & Elizabeth Oakley, 3 June 1785
William Walker & Elizabeth Ward, 4 July 1785
Richard Ward & Hanna Cox, 13 Sept. 1785
John Ilitt & Elizabeth Kinchin, lic., 14 Nov. 1785
Thomas Copestake & Elizabeth Nickols, 22 May 1786
John Powell, p. Bidford, & Ann Mumford, lic., 26 Oct. 1786
Henry Shirvington & Elener Jackson, 3 Dec. 1786
William Roberts & Mary Woolleston, lic., 11 Oct. 1787
John Hunt & Sarah Trapman, 10 Mar. 1788
James Spiers & Ann Kite, 14 Apr. 1788
William Timms & Elizabeth Roberts, 10 May 1788
John Cox & Elizabeth Widdows, 10 Oct. 1788
James Hadland & Mary Smith, lic., 1 Mar. 1791
George Crisp & Ann White, 3 May 1791
Thomas Lively & Sarah Anderton, 26 Sept. 1791
Thomas Tufty & Sarah Grimmit, 21 Nov. 1791
Thomas Holland, gen., p. Mickleton, & Temperance Tomes, lic., 15 Dec. 1791
Robert Batsford & Martha Hiron, 31 Dec. 1792
William Coggins, of M.S., & Jane Leech, p. Welford, 4 Feb. 1793
Thomas Savage & Mary Spiers, 26 May 1793
Job Abell, p. Weston-under-Hill, & Ann Paxon, 27 Dec. 1793
William Warner & Sarah Hawker, 12 June 1794
Jonathan Paine, hamlet Finstock, p. Chalbury, co. Oxford, w., & Sally Walton, w., lic., 19 June 1794
John Kings, p. Welford, & Elizabeth Ball, 7 July 1794
William Ryland & Mary Harris, 29 Dec. 1795
John Hurlstone & Mary Bennet, 28 Sept. 1796
William Walford, gent., p. Quienton, & Sarah Tomes, lic., 30 Dec. 1796
Robert Mander & Elizabeth Tarplet, 13 Nov. 1797
Richard Palmer, p. Stratford-on-Avon, & Martha Fincher, lic., 31 Jan. 1799
Joseph Night & Laretta Collicutt, 15 Apr. 1799
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol X. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1905.
Marston Sicca (Long Marston) Marriages 1754 to 1779
Volume III.
William Tims & Elizabeth Paine, 21 Oct. 1754
Jacob Copestick, alias Copestake, & Ann Toms, 10 Feb. 1755
Henry Sheldon & Ann Webb, 13 May 1755
Joseph Godfrie, p. Mickleton, & Ann Hortin, lic., 26 Jan. 1757
Richard Dennis, p. Dorsington, & Hannah Johnson, 6 May 1757
William Paddock, p. Dorsington, & Ann Bolton, 21 July 1757
John Heming & Hannah Smith, 4 May 1758
John White, p. Pebworth, & Mary Camden, lic., 2 June 1759
Josiah Flaxen & Ann Compton, 11 Oct. 1759
Job Widows & Hannah Harris, 28 Jan. 1760
Richard Hunt, p. Pebworth, & Mary Warner, 8 Apr. 1760
Arthur Jeffrys & Sarah Cowley, lic., 20 Apr. 1760
Peter Eunite & Elizabeth Harbige, 14 May 1760
Thomas Warner, p. M. S., & Ann Harbige Honiborne [sic], 25 Dec. 1760
Thomas Taylor, p. Stratford, co. Warwick, & Ann Paris, lic., 9 Aug. 1761
[The writing here is very faded. See remarks in prefatory note.]
Richard Privy & Mary Warner, 14 Nov. 1761
Thomas Cook & Mary Sheldon, lic., 24 Nov. 1761
John Hobbins & Elizabeth Cooper, 1 Feb. 1762
Richard Hughes & Sarah Warner, 3 May 1762
Thomas Hughes & Mary Bishop, [?] May 1762
John Woodward, p. M. S., & Philiss Newman, p. Welford, lic., 12 June 1762
Richard Watters & Elizabeth Bonnet, 6 Sept. 1762
John Woolison & Tabitha Canning, lic., 8 Nov. [1762 ?]
Nathan Southam, of Tredington, co. Worcester, & Mary Johnson, 6 May 1764
Thomas Sheppy & Ann Mills, 23 July 1764
Samuel Gines, p. Temple Grafton, & Mary Camden, 8 Sept. 1765
William Fincher & Hannah Momford, lic., 4 Mar. 1767
Richard Collins & Hester Cooper, 5 Oct. 1767
William Cooper, p. Dorsington, & Mary Gibbs, lic., 31 Oct. 1767
Thomas Tuffly & Ann Johnson, 14 May 1768
Nathaniel Campden & Elizabeth Wrighton, lic., 2 Aug. 1768
William Mealen, of North Littleton, & Mary Weston, lic., 12 Jan. 1769
Richard Turbit & Elizabeth Sadler, 27 Mar. 1769
John Gibbs & Sarah Weston, lic., 27 Mar. 1769
William Jackson & Hannah London, 10 Apr. 1769
John Bennett, p. Cleeve Prior, & Elizabeth Haynes, lic., 10 Nov. 1769
Thomas Ryley & Mercy Abel, lic., 8 Oct. 1770
John Williams, p. Welford, & Susannah Savage, 10 Oct. 1771
George Mills, p. Clifford, & Susannah Johnson, 29 Jan. 1772
Joseph Court, p. Grafton, & Sarah Bishop, 29 July 1772
John Hodgkins & Sarah Bennett, 19 Feb. 1773
William Webb & Hannah Cox [This is entered in Vol. II of the Registers, page 12.], 12 Jan. 1773
John Phillips & Mary Pegley, 30 Apr. 1774
Thomas Robbins & Mary Kinchen, 7 Aug. 1774
John Prew & Mary Wheeler, lic., 13 Oct. 1774
William Mander & Susannah Kinchin, 21 Dec. 1774
Thomas Heighwood & Mary Cox, 11 Oct. 1776
Thomas Milward, of Bidford, & Mary Mumford, lic., 10 Aug. 1777
Joseph Bickerstaf & Elizabeth Sheldon, 25 Oct. 1777
John Wesson & Ann Warner, 30 Mar. 1778
Absolom Weblee & Bridget Hewes, 20 Sept. 1778
Francis Hasler, p. Stratford-on-Avon, & Ann Deson, 29 Oct. 1778
Thomas Cox & Mary Taplin, 3 May 1779
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol X. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1905
Long Marston Warwickshire Marriages Out of Parish
Below is a list of people who were from Long Marston but who were married in another parish.
Simon Bishop, of Long Marston, & Mary Harborne, of N. L., wid. 3 Jan. 1692 at North & Middle Littleton, Worcestershire.
John Paddock, of Long Marston, & Elizabeth Knight 18 July 1772 at North & Middle Littleton, Worcestershire.
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Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Stratford on Avon
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Campden
- Poor Law Union: Stratford on Avon
- Hundred: Kiftsgate
- Province: Canterbury


































































