Hello
Sorry Gadget I did not see your post before I posted mine. I have checked the Whittington/Halston book, it is only from 1690ish and has very few entries.
A search in Ancestry on place Shropshire and the text Haiston produces 28,000 records, all seem to have the text “Book: Register of Haiston.--Burials. (Burial).” This is many more records than ever was in Halston. The first 311 records do not have any date, the 312th starts at 1558 and is a burial. The undated records are mostly headings and notations but some are identifiable, such as
Text: Mr. Walter Griffiths of Llanvechan in the Countie of Montgymery & Mrs. Mary Davenport of Osswaldstree maried. Book: Register of Haiston.--Burials. (Burial) Collection: Shropshire: Oswestry - Parish Registers, St. Asaph Diocese –
Which is identifiable as the 1665 Oswestry marriage in the Select Marriages dataset
Name: Mary Mrs Davenport Gender: Female Marriage Date: Jul 1665 Marriage Place: Oswestry,Shropshire,England Spouse: Walter Griffiths.
The dated records from 1558 match what is in the Oswestry register on Archive.org, with some entries missing, [ie Nov 1558 has only 3 of the 8 entries from the Oswestry Register].
So it seems it is likely taken the Oswestry register available on archive.org. It is not in the first volume which covers 1558 to 1593, so I will try the subsequent volumes on archive.org later today [Oz time], and will repost my findings in about 12 hours.
Glenn