Glatton, Huntingdonshire Family History Guide
Glatton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire. Holme is a chapelry of Glatton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Nicholas
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1578
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GLATTON, a village and a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon. The village stands 3 miles SSW of Stilton, and 3 ½ WSW of Holme r. station; and has a post-office under Peterborough. The parish includes the chapelry of Holme. Acres, 6, 400. Real property, £9, 030. Pop., 937. Houses, 177. The property is not much divided. The manor belonged to the Sherards and the Wellses. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £546. Patron, J. M. Wingfield, Esq. The church is early English, with a square tower; and the chancel of it was recently restored. There are a national school, and some small charities.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
GLATTON (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Peterborough, hundred of Norman-Cross, county of Huntingdon, 2¼ miles (S. S. W.) from Stilton; containing, with the chapelry of Holme, 715 inhabitants. It is situated on the great north road, and comprises by admeasurement 2070 acres, of which two-thirds are arable, and the remainder pasture; the soil is a stiff clay. The surface is rather flat; the prevailing timber is elm, with an intermixture of oak and ash in some parts, and the scenery is generally of pleasing character.
The living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Holme annexed, valued in the king’s books at £21. 8. 11½.; net income, £546; patron, T. M. Wingfield, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1800; the land comprises 473 acres. There is an endowment of £15 per annum, arising from land for teaching children.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Marriage Licences and Allegations
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Treswell, Robert [he signs Robert Treswell, Somerset, i.e., Somerset Herald], of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, gent., widower, 35, whose wife died about thirteen weeks since,
and Mary Castle, of St. Clement Danes, maiden, 33, daughter of William Castle, of Glatton, co. Hunts, gent., deceased, her mother also dead — consent of Countess of Essex, on whom she is now attending — at St. Martin-in-the-Vintry, London. 23 Dec. 1601. B.
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Administration
- County: Huntingdonshire
- Civil Registration District: Peterborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Yaxley
- Poor Law Union: Peterborough
- Hundred: Norman Cross
- Province: Canterbury