Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England   Hertfordshire   Hertfordshire Parishes

Parish History
PELHAM, FURNEUX (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bishop-Stortford, hundred of Edwinstree, county of Hertford, 5½ miles (E. by S.) from Buntingford; containing 682 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, consolidated with that of Brent-Pelham, and valued in the king's books at £9: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £545. 10., and the vicarial for £151; the impropriate glebe comprises 144 acres, and the vicarial 6. The sum of £19 is also payable out of the tithes to the rector of StockingPelham. The church has a chapel, the burial-place of the Calvert family, on the south side of the chancel; at the west end is a square tower, embattled, and surmounted by a short spire.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)

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Probate records
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