Hessle Yorkshire Family History Guide
Hessle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Anlaby.
Alternative names: Hasle, Kingston upon Hull All Saints
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HESSLE, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Sculcoates district, E. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the Humber, at the ferry to Barton, and on the Hull and Selby railway, 4½ miles W by S of Hnll; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Hull.
The parish comprises 2, 410 acres of land, and 1, 500 of water. Real property, £10, 464; of which £470 are in quarries. Pop., 1, 625. Houses, 364. The property is subdivided.
The manor belonged to the Stutvilles; was given by them to the canons of Watton; and passed to the Wakes and others. Hessle-Wood Hall is a chief residence.
There are two whiting manufactories.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £303. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £126.
The sub-district includes also three townships of Kirk-Ella. Acres, 7, 480. Pop., 2, 522. Houses, 563.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Paver’s Marriage Licences
It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.
1630 Christopher Kell, Hessle, and Sarah Watson, Drypool — either place.
1630 William Scriven and Barbara Saunderson, Hessle — there.
Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Sculcoates
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
- Poor Law Union: Sculcoates
- Hundred: Kingston upon Hull Borough
- Province: York