Parish records of Howsham

Includes register of marriages, 1933-1954; overseers’ accounts and rates, 1657-1837; The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford edition), 1857; The Homilies of the United Church of England and Ireland, 1815; The Book of Common Prayer (London edition), 1857; The Communion and other Services according to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland, 1858; and Brown’s Self Interpreting Family Bible, n.d.

The church of St John the Evangelist, Howsham, was a chapel of ease within the parish of Scrayingham until 1977 when it was transferred to the parish of Bossall with Buttercrambe.
The church was built in 1859-1860 to a design by architect George Edmund Street, and at the expense of Mrs Chomley of Howsham Hall, whose husband funded the rebuilding of Scrayingham church in 1853.
Today St John’s is one of three churches within the parish of Bossall with Buttercrambe and Howsham, which is in turn part of the combined benefice of Harton.

Records are open to the public, subject to the overriding provisions of relevant legislation, including data protection laws. 24 hours' notice is required to access photographic material.

The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1972 by the incumbent. A further addition was made to the archive in 1974.

The church of St John the Evangelist, Howsham, was a chapel of ease within the parish of Scrayingham until 1977 when it was transferred to the parish of Bossall with Buttercrambe.
The church was built in 1859-1860 to a design by architect George Edmund Street, and at the expense of Mrs Chomley of Howsham Hall, whose husband funded the rebuilding of Scrayingham church in 1853.
Today St John’s is one of three churches within the parish of Bossall with Buttercrambe and Howsham, which is in turn part of the combined benefice of Harton.

A typescript finding aid, to file level, is available for consultation in the searchroom of the Borthwick Institute. This includes all material received up to and including 1974.

Registers of marriages, 1933-1954, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (Reference: MF 709).
Our collection of parish baptism, marriage and burial registers has been digitised by both Ancestry and Find My Past. Copies of digitised records can be viewed online on Ancestry or Find My Past, as part of larger UK-wide parish registers datasets. You can find out more about these record sets, and how to find our registers, here: https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/are-you-looking-for-parish-registers.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 22.02.16.

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Further accruals are expected.

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