Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire Family History Guide
Ewyas Harold is an Ancient Parish in the county of Herefordshire.
Alternative names: Ewias Harold, Euryas Harold
Parish church: St. Michael
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1734
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1700
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Adjacent Parishes
Ewyas Harold Parish Registers
Search online indexed transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials. Taken from the original parish registers, these entries may include names, dates, family relationships, residences, occupations and other details noted by the minister, with earlier records naturally offering fewer details.
Baptism Records
These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of baptisms.
Ewyas Harold Herefordshire Baptisms 1687-1881
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of marriages.
Ewyas Harold Herefordshire Marriages 1687-1895
Ewyas Harold, St Michael Herefordshire Marriages 1735-1837
Death and Burial Records
These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burials.
Ewyas Harold Herefordshire Burials 1775-1839
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
EWYAS-HAROLD, a parish in the district and county of Hereford; on an affluent of the river Monnow, 1¼ mile NW of Pontrilas r. station, and 11½ SW of Hereford. Post town, Pontrilas, under Hereford. Acres, 1,838. Real property, £1,895. Pop., 407. Houses, 88. The property is much subdivided. A castle was built here by King Harold, but has disappeared. A small priory of black monks, a cell to Gloucester abbey, also was founded here about 1100. Ewyas was formerly a lordship, extending to the vale of Honddu beyond the Black mountains. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, 110. Patron, Bishop of G. and B The church dates from the 14th century, and is tolerable.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
EWYAS-HARROLD (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Dore, hundred of Webtree, county of Hereford, 12½ miles (S. W.) from Hereford; containing 356 inhabitants. Here was anciently a castle, which, according to Dugdale, was built by William Fitz-Osborne, Earl of Hereford, after the Conquest; but Leland observes that it was probably erected by King Harold, and conferred by him upon an illegitimate son, also named Harold.
A prior and small convent of monks settled here about 1100, from the abbey of St. Peter, in Gloucester, and continued till 1358, when the revenue being insufficient for their support, they were again united to the abbey.
The parish is situated near the mouth of the river Dore, just before it joins the Munnow, and about a mile from the road between Hereford and Abergavenny. It comprises by computation 1565 acres, of which 1351 are arable, pasture, and meadow, and 214 woodland. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £110; patron, James Hopton, Esq.; appropriator, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is a small ancient edifice, of which all the sittings are free.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Herefordshire
- Civil Registration District: Hereford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Brecon
- Diocese: St David’s
- Rural Deanery: Brecknock
- Poor Law Union: Dore
- Hundred: Webtree
- Province: Canterbury