Halsham Yorkshire Family History Guide
Halsham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Alternative names: Halsam
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1563
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HALSHAM, a parish in Patrington district, E. R. Yorkshire; 1hf. m. N of Ottringham r. station, and 5½ ESE of Hedon. Post town, Ottringham, under Hull. Acres, 2, 877. Real property, £3, 777. Pop., 265. Houses, 45. The property is divided between two. The manor belongs to Sir T. A. Constable. The surface is flat, and formerly was subject to flooding.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £760. Patron, Capt. Shipton, R. N. The church is ancient but good; includes a chantry chapel; has a modern vestry and a tower; and contains sedilia, a pulpit of 1634, an octagonal granite font, and an alabaster effigies of Sir John Constable, of the middle of the 15th century. A handsome mausoleum of the Constable family, with dome and surmounting cross, is near the church. An endowed school and an hospital have £80.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Patrington
- Probate Court: Pre-1836 – Court of the Peculiar of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St. John, Beverley, Post-1835 – Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: South Holderness
- Poor Law Union: Patrington
- Hundred: Holderness
- Province: York