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HAYNES, a parish in the hundred of FLITT, county of BEDFORD, 4 miles (N.E.) from Ampthill, containing 175 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of Lord Carteret. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A Sunday school is endowed with 50s. per annum, the gift of Villiers Fowler in 1708, for the instruction of poor children.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
The 1851 Census Index for Haynes can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 4, Book 2 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of St. Mary, rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, and enlarged in 1850 by the late Rev. Lord John Thynne D.D. d. 9 Feb. 1881, is an elegant structure in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, memorial chapel to Anne Constantia (Beresford) wife of Lord John Thynne, nave, aisles, with vestry beyond, south porch and an embattled tower: at the north side of the chancel there are three stained window and one in the west end of the church in memory of Mrs. Thynne, besides one in the south of the chancel in memory of the Rev. Arthur E. D. Osborne B.A. vicar 1878-87: the church is uniformly seated with oak benches: beneath the south aisle is the vault of the Carteret family. The register dates from the year 1596.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
Here are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for St. Mary are available on microfiche for the period 1596-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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