Marriage Distribution

Glanville distribution around the country can be determined by examining Where they married.

I have sufficient coverage (although incomplete) of the records to allow an examination of where the known marriages took place, in 50 year slices, between 1550 and 1950.
Mainland England and Wales only. Scilly Isles, Channel Isles, Isle of Man, Scottish and Irish records excluded.

A series of maps are presented below, either by specific location within a time window, or a by-county count within a time window.

Known Errors

• I have used my own experiences and judgement (which is not perfect) to decide which spelling variants to include / exclude as "Glanvilles". Phonetic spelling, transcription errors, original document mistakes etc etc etc conspire against exactitude in my analysis.
• Not all marriages that must have taken place have been identified.
  For example, parents named in baptismal records, and spouses in census records inform of Glanvilles for whom the marriage record is yet to be found. Hence there are more marriages than identified here.
• Many of the marriages are of Glanville woman, and some of those will have been Glanville widows remarrying in their previous married name - i.e. they were not born Glanvilles

Maps

Here are the maps, each opens into a new Browser window.

By Location Maps
Each marriage within the year range covered appears as a single white spot geographically located at the town / village.
Other marriages at the same location force an increase in spot size, not additional spots.
Only marriages with a known date and location are used in the generation of the maps.

The Top Towns list the locations with the most marriages recorded in the 50 year period.
Town names such as Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth cover all the church locations within that town, and a single spot covers all the marriages regardless of which church held the marriage.
However, London in the Top Towns is a count of the marriages held within the central parts such as Islington, Westminster, Hackney and Battersea, Wandsworth but each of those districts is shown as a separate map spot. Greenwich, Ealing, Clapham etc are deemed separate and marriages there do not get counted in the London Top Town, and have their own map spot.

This section includes all the spelling variants I have deemed to refer to Glanvilles.

1551-1600 Top Towns # Marrs South Tawton, Devon 11 Exeter, Devon   7		1601-1650 Top Towns # Marrs Exeter, Devon 24 Plymouth, Devon 18 London   9 Honiton, Devon   7 Boyton, Cornwall   7		1651-1700 Top Towns # Marrs Exeter, Devon 31 London 24 Plymouth, Devon 17 Crediton, Devon 14 Heavitree, Devon  7
1701-1750 Top Towns # Marrs London 56 Exeter, Devon 31 Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon 18 Morchard Bishop, Devon  8 St Columb Minor, Cornwall  8 St Columb Major, Cornwall  7		1751-1800 Top Towns # Marrs London 55 Camborne, Cornwall 28 Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon 18 Stoke Damerel, Devon 19 Exeter, Devon 16 Newlyn East, Cornwall 12		1801-1850 Top Towns # Marrs London 55 Camborne, Cornwall 28 Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon 18 Stoke Damerel, Devon 19 Exeter, Devon 16 Newlyn East, Cornwall 12
1851-1900 Top Towns # Marrs London 229 Plymouth, Devon 114 Exeter, Devon   44 Redruth, Cornwall   35 Camborne, Cornwall   29 Bristol, Gloucs   28		1901-1950 Top Towns # Marrs London 203 Plymouth, Devon 173 Bristol, Gloucs   74 Portsmouth, Hants   64 Exeter, Devon   56 Redruth, Cornwall   52		1951-2000 Top Towns # Marrs Plymouth, Devon 157 London 113 Bristol, Gloucs   69 Exeter, Devon   37 St Austell, Cornwall   31 Chatham, Kent   30

Counts by County The migration of Glanvilles out of Devon and Cornwall can be seen by the following maps showing the Ancient Counties and the number of Glanville marriages taking place within them in the last 250 years. As the previous maps showed more clearly, the marriages were not evenly distributed across counties, but focussed on specific locations such as the population centres (and naval bases) of Plymouth, Portsmouth, Chatham and Bristol. However, the by-county count, makes clear the summation of marriages in more rural areas where the per-location count may be low (and less visible on the earlier maps), but together there are significant Glanville marriages in a region as a whole (e.g. Yorkshire 1901-1950.)
1751-1800	1801-1850	1851-1900	1901-1950	1951-2000