History of the Everingham name

Everingham Family History Record Reprint... (c)July 2000

The Everingham area and Surname
Probable Name Origin
Where did the name EVERINGHAM
most likely come from?
information gathered from Geographical and Historical documentation.
Info from Perish records, Langdale's Yorkshire Dictionary (1822)
Baine's Directory of the County of York (1823), and Bulmer's 1892
History and Directory of the East Riding of Yorkshire

The manor at modern day Everingham Park, England anciently belonged to a family (as the source claims) that took its name from the place, who held it of the fee of the Archbishops of York, by the service of performing the office of butler at the archiepiscopal palace on the day of enthronisation. Adam de Everingham, the last heir male of this family, who died in 1371, left only heirs general, and his estates passed into other hands. The family of Elys or Ellis next held the manor, and early in the 16th century it came into the possession of the Constables - a branch of the family of that name long settled at Flamborough. Sir Philip Constable, of Everingham, left a daughter and heir, Anne, who married William, second son of Sir Thomas Haggerston, of Haggerston Castle.

The Everingham village is small, and stands amid beautiful scenery, five miles west of Market Weighton, and the same distance south of Pocklington. The name is said to be derived from St. Everildis, who established a religious house here about the middle of the seventh century. All traces of this convent have disappeared, and it's tradition has failed to preserve the memory of its site. Everild's sanctuary was called Everildsham. Another theory exists of Eofer, a boar, and also used as a personal name among the Anglo-Saxons. The descendants of Eofer were called Eofrings, and their clan settlement Eofringham, now Everingham.
these are the two main thories of where the name Everingham came from.
(see our old world Everighams page for more information).
(see St. Everildis for more information).

St Everilda Church The church at Everingham Park, called by Torre, and other writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, St. Emeldis, but said to have been originally dedicated to St. Everilda, is a plain edifice in the Norman style, consisting of nave and chancel of brick, and a western tower of stone, containing three bells.

Everingham Park is the seat of Lord Herries, Lord Lieutenant and Custos. Rotulorum of the East Riding. The mansion is a spacious structure of brick,with stone dressings, erected about a century ago. Attached to the mansion is a handsome Catholic church, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and St. Everilda, erected in 1839 by the late Lord Herries. It is cruciform in plan, with an apsidal chancel at one end and an ante-chapel at the other. One transept forms the Lady Chapel and the other the sacristy. The church is lighted from the roof, which rests on Corinthian columns and pilasters, with an elegant entablature. Between the columns are statues and subjects in relief, representing the salient events in the life of our Lord; and standing on pedestals in various parts of the church are full length statues of the twelve apostles, the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph, St. John the Baptist, and St. Everilda. The high altar is a magnificent piece of marblework. The font, curiously carved with birds and animals, supposed to be Saxon work, belonged originally to the parish church. The church was re-decorated at very considerable expense by the present noble owner in 1889.

The park, covering 175 acres, is well wooded and stocked with deer. In the grounds is an artificial sheet of water, about eight acres in extent, which greatly enhances the beauty of the scenery.