Furneux Pelham Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Furneux Pelham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1829
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Little Hormead
- Brent Pelham
- Braughing
- Great Hormead
- Berden, Essex
- Manuden, Essex
- Albury
- Stocking Pelham
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FURNEUX-PELHAM, a parish in Bishop-Stortford district, Herts; on the river Ash, and on the verge of the county, 3½ miles E of West Mill r. station, and 5½ NNW of Bishop-Stortford. It has a post-office under Buntingford. Acres, 2, 535. Real property, £4, 385. Pop., 620. Houses, 121. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, at the Conquest, to the Pelhams of Stanmer; passed to the Brocklesbys; belonged, in the time of Henry III., to Simon de Furneux; and passed to the Lees, the Newports, the Morleys, and others. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Brent-Pelham, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is ancient but good; and contains a number of monuments, some fine carved work, and a fine marble monument. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £24.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Bishops Stortford
- Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral, Post-1844 – Court of the Archdeaconry of St Albans
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Buntingford
- Poor Law Union: Bishop’s Stortford
- Hundred: Edwinstree
- Province: Canterbury