Hallingham Essex where is it ?

[tedstockton]

Hi

I have a relative, my 3rd great grandfather , Francis Fuller, whose birthplace is given in the 1851 census returns as hallingham Essex. He married in 1840 a woman from Standon herts in Much Hadham Herts.

I cannot find any Hallinham in Essex and have tried a number of synonyms and other possibles. I would susupect that it is near the Hertfordshire border.

Does anyone familiar with these areas have any ideas or suggestions.

[Clincher]

I can't think of anything like Hallinham in Essex. Have you got that place name from the census page itself or from a transcript of it?
There is a parish in Herts called Aldenham - just north of Bushey and Elstree which is quite a way from Standon and Much Hadham.

[Clincher]

I've just checked with Essex RO website and there is a Great and a Little Hallingbury listed as parishes.
I googled the name and found one website which seems to refer to Hallingham as being a location within either of those 2 parishes.

[tedstockton]

Thanks for your efforts. I got hallingham from the actual census image itself and have just tried the "magnifier " on it again to see it it could be wrongly transcribed, but no.

I had also discovered the hallingbury,s and they are close to herts but when i followed the Google trail to an online genealogy page it looked liked another typo ( like mine above - hallinham )

There seem to be no other references at all in Google to hallingham.

One possible lead is that in 1851, Francis's younger sister ( Frances ) is living with the family and is recorded on the census sheet as being born in Essex, Sheering. There is a sheering too a couple of miles south of the Hallingbury's

[Necromancer]

I was just going to point that out .... the sister is also with them in the 1841 Much Hadham census as 'Not born in County' ...

[keldon]

I have a website on the history of Essex and can confirm there is no parish by that name in  modern use. However, I have just checked on google books and found one reference to the name in "Dictionarium Angliæ Topographicum & Historicum: An Alphabetical Description of the Chief Places"
http://books.google.com/books?id=zewDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA152&dq=Hallingham

On page 152 it has a reference to Hallingham or Heningham which it states is another name for Hedingham.

This appears to be a very old reference but it is possible that the name continued in local use into the 19th century. I know that my own village of Kelvedon Hatch was known to the locals as Keldon for centuries.

Hope this helps
Phil
historyhouse.co.uk

I just tried another spelling on google books and it looks as if it is Castle Hedingham or Sible Hedingham.
http://books.google.com/books?spell=1&q=Henningham+essex&btnG=Search+Books