BARHAM
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"BARHAM, a parish in the hundred of Leightonstone, in the county of
Huntingdon, 7 miles to the north-west of Huntingdon. Kimbolton is its post town.
The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ely, of the value of
£58, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Giles.
The parochial charities amount to £8."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- Monumental inscriptions for Barham have not yet been recorded by the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- The full 1841 Census of Barham Parish is available as fiche set C104.
- The full 1851 Census of Barham Parish is available as fiche set C54.
- A Surname Index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which Barham
was enumerated (RG11/1602, Folios 52a - 53b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is
available, as fiche set C3.
- A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Spaldwick sub-District of the Huntingdon
Registration District (RG12/1236) in which Barham was enumerated, and which took place
on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C8).
- The fiche sets mentioined above are available from the
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- St. Giles's Church, Barham.
- The church of St. Giles consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle and south porch.
The walls are of pebble rubble mixed with stones, and with stone dressings, but
the south wall of the nave is of rough ashlar. The roofs are covered with tiles.
- The church is not mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086; it was probably first
built late in the 12th century. About the year 1300, the chancel and chancel arch
were rebuilt. Somewhat late in the 14th century, new windows were inserted in the
walls of the nave and, probably at this time, the eastern arch of the arcade was
rebuilt and widened towards the east - the responds being reset.
- The church was restored around 1850 when he porch and north wall of the aisle were
rebuilt, and a bell-cote built on the west gable. The west wall was restored and
the porch rebuilt again in 1903, and the chancel restored in 1909.
- The following are available in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- Baptisms: 1604-1619, 1681-1851 (both indexed), 1813-1983.
- Banns: 1604-1619, 1696-1851 (both indexed), 1824-1974.
- Marriages: 1607-1619, 1698-1849 (both indexed), 1839-1954.
- Burials: 1604-1619, 1696-1851 (both indexed), 1813-1987.
- Bishop's Transcripts: 1604, 1607, 1610, 1612, 1618-19, 1762/1813-35, 1837, 1850, 1854-55, 1857-8.
- The
Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes
include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical
listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Barham was originally in the Huntingdon Registration District from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it became part of the Spaldwick sub-District, but it is now directly under the Huntingdon District.
- Bercheham (xi cent.),
- Bercham,
- Bergham,
- Berwham,
- Berewan,
- Berenham,
- Beuham (xiii cent.),
- Barram,
- Barrham (xiv cent.).}
- The parish of Barham was in the Huntingdon Union for Poor Law administration.
- Births and Deaths registered in the Huntingdon Union Workhouse (1838 - 1949) are available,
as fiche set D10, from the
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Population in 1801 - 96.
- Population in 1851 - 105.
- Population in 1901 - 57.
- Population in 1951 - 72.
- Population in 1971 - 71.
- Population in 1991 - 49.
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