A brief summary of facts and figures from the Parish Records of St. Wilfrid's Church, Monk Fryston. 
The parish of Monk Fryston consists of three villages - Monk Fryston, Hillam and Burton Salmon.

Hillam was an agricultural village for the whole of the period studied but now as can be seen from the Farming page it is considerably reduced. Most of the old farmsteads in the village have been converted to residential properties and the village has become a commuting satellite to the cities of Leeds, York, Wakefield and beyond, assisted by the nearby access to the A1M, M1 and M62 motorways.

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Information has been extracted from five periods of ten years: 1700 - 1709, 1750 - 1759, 1800 - 1809, 1850 - 1859 and 1900 - 1909.
Also included is some from the 1679 - 1700 registers to give an idea of life in earlier times.

The first page of the register dated 1679 lists "husbandrys" of the three villages. Husbandrys were extended family units working land. There is no reference to any other occupation in Hillam at this time.

Extract: "Husbandrys in Hilham"
The house of John Vince
Sharp or Cockil
(note: the Cockil family - sometimes Cockill, later Corkhill was very extensive a number of which were producing large families but no reference to the family after 1744.).
L Bew
Wells
Wm. Bocock Ward
Brewin

Full details of the extensive research carried out by Barbara Atkinson for the periods mentioned are available in our book. This illustrates the changes in village life over the centuries and shows further detail on marriages, baptisms and burials, along with occupations and other snippets of village life as seen from the Parish Registers.