Southoe Huntingdonshire Family History Guide
Southoe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire. Hail Weston is a chapelry of Southoe.
Other places in the parish include: Boughton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Leonard
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SOUTHOE, a parish in St. Neots district, Hunts; 2¾ miles NNW of St. Neots r. station. Post town, Buckden, under Huntingdon. Acres, 1,860. Real property, £2,606. Pop., 281. Houses, 61. The manor belonged formerly to the Lovetotes, John of Gaunt, and the Pickerings; and belongs now to Lord Overstone. The living is a vicarage, united with Hail-Weston, in the diocese of Ely. Value, £288. Patron, the Rev. J. R. Moorsom. The church is ancient, and has a Norman door. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SOUTHOE (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of St. Neot’s, hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, 3¼ miles (N. by W.) from St. Neot’s; containing 297 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage endowed with the rectorial tithes, with the living of Hail-Weston annexed, and valued in the king’s books at £14. 2. 3½.; net income, £288; patron and incumbent, the Rev. J. Standly. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, in 1797, under an inclosure act. There are some mineral springs in the parish. Bishop Chadderton was interred here.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Administration
- County: Huntingdonshire
- Civil Registration District: St Neots
- 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: St Neots
- Poor Law Union: St Neots
- Hundred: Toseland
- Province: Canterbury