Difference between revisions of "Hertfordshire"

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Parts of Hertfordshire hide in the beautiful Chiltern Hills, which run through part of the west of the county into Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.

In the east the new towns of Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth Garden City and Watford are highly industrialised whilst in the west of the county, there are many smaller towns and villages which are agricultural in their nature.

Residents of the smaller west Hertfordshire towns and villages are known locally as 'Hedgehogs'.

Resources

Primary Reference

Hertfordshire Record Office (HALS)

Hertfordshire Libraries

Hertfordshire Family History Society

Hertfordshire Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

Hertfordshire Council

Dacorum Heritage Trust

Genealogy in Hertfordshire

Genealogy in Hertfordshire

Visitations of Hertfordshire 1572 and 1634

Specific Town and Village Interest

Berkhamsted History

Wiki Page Berkhamsted

History of Bishop's Stortford and Thorley

Borehamwood and Elstree Times

Bovingdon Census Returns, 1841 & 1871

Bovingdon

Bushey Museum & Art Gallery - incl. part-time Local Studies section

Caddington Local History Group

Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted & Tring Local History

Discover Hertford

Hunsdon -includes some Parish Records

Kings Langley, Its History and Local Architecture

Knebworth and Stevenage Mounumental Inscriptions

Index to the Leighton Buzzard Observer

Letchworth & District History Society

Leverstock Green History and Genealogy

Little Munden, Great Munden and Sacombe Genealogy Pages

Markyate Local History Society

Wiki Page Northchurch

Pirton Local History Group

Preston in the Nineteenth Century

Puckeridge Village History

Redbourn Genealogy Pages

Royston Cave- A Knights Templar Legacy

Royston & District Museum & Art Gallery

History of Stevenage

Therfield

The Friends of St James the Great, Thorley

This is Tring

Burials in Welwyn Churchyard

Wheathampstead

Maps and Photographs

Hertfordshire Churches

Old Postcards of Barnet

Register Office

There are 8 district offices within Hertfordshire.

Online applications can be made to any office via the following link:

Hertsdirect Herts Direct

Alternatively postal applications can be made to the following district offices:

Bishop Stortford Registration District

Bishops Stortford Register Office
Riverside House
2 Hockerill Street
Bishops Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 2DL

Tel 01279 652273

Broxbourne Registration District

Broxbourne Register Office
Bishops College
Churchgate
Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN8 9XH

Tel 01992 623107

Dacorum Registration District

Dacorum Register Office
The Bury
Queensway
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 1HR

Tel 01442 228600

Hatfield Registration District

19b St Albans Road East
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL10 0NG

Tel 01707 283921

Hertford and Ware Registration District

Hertford Register Office
County Hall
Pegs Lane
Hertford
Hertfordshire
SG13 8DE

Tel: 01992 555590 / 01992 555591

St Albans Registration District

St Albans Register Office
The Gatehouse
1 Victoria Square
Victoria Street
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 3TF

Tel: 01727 774030

Stevenage,Hitchin and Royston District

Stevenage Register Office
Danesgate
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG1 1WW

Tel 01438 316579

Watford Registration District

Watford Register Office
36 Clarendon Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD17 1JQ

Tel 01923 231302

Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.

Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Watford Rumpole

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.

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-<div align="right">[[Image:herts.jpg|250px|thumb|Ashridge Monument, erected in 1832 to the Duke of Bridgewater submitted by Jess]]</div>
+[[Category:Adopted Pages]]
-__TOC__
-[[Image:EnglandHertfordshire.jpeg|250px|thumb|Hertfordshire County Map (source: Wikipedia)]]
-'''Hertfordshire'''
-County town: Hertford
+[[Category:Region 5 ~ Eastern England]]
+{| width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"
+|-valign="top"
+|Parts of Hertfordshire hide in the beautiful Chiltern Hills, which run through part of the west of the county into Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.
-Other major towns: Watford, Hemel Hempstead, St Albans
+In the east the new towns of Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth Garden City and Watford are highly industrialised whilst in the west of the county, there are many smaller towns and villages which are agricultural in their nature.
-Parts of Hertfordshire hide in the beautiful Chiltern Hills, which run through part of the west of the county into Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. In the east the new towns of Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth Garden City and Watford are highly industrialised whilst in the west of the county, there are many smaller towns and villages which are agricultural in their nature. Residents of the smaller west Hertfordshire towns and villages are known locally as 'Hedgehogs'.
+Residents of the smaller west Hertfordshire towns and villages are known locally as 'Hedgehogs'.
+| style="width:250px" align="right"| __TOC__
+|-valign="top"
+| Being close to London, the county has some of the finest examples of traditional English country homes within its borders.
-Being close to London, the county has some of the finest examples of traditional English country homes within its borders. Hatfield House, Knebworth House and Brocket Hall all date back centuries whilst in the market town of Berkhamsted a Norman castle still stands.
+Hatfield House, Knebworth House and Brocket Hall all date back centuries whilst in the market town of Berkhamsted a Norman castle still stands.
 Graeme Green was both born and educated in Berkhamsted.
-<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
-==Register Offices==
-*There are 8 district offices within Hertfordshire,
+'''County town:''' Hertford
-* online applications can be made to any office via the following links
-'''Births'''
-*[https://www.hertsdirect.org/actweb/registrars/birthcert_orderform.cfm BIRTHS]
+'''Other major towns:''' Watford, Hemel Hempstead, St. Albans
-'''Marriages'''
-*[https://www.hertsdirect.org/actweb/registrars/marriagecert_orderform.cfm MARRIAGES]
+'''[[Places_of_Worship:Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire Places of Worship]]'''
-'''Deaths'''
-*[https://www.hertsdirect.org/actweb/registrars/deathcert_orderform.cfm DEATHS]
+'''[https://www.familytreeforum.com/forum/site-projects/regional-projects Regional Projects Forum]'''
+| [[Image: EnglandHertfordshire.jpeg|right|175px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
+|}
+==Resources==
-Alternatively postal applications can be made to the following district offices
+'''Primary Reference'''
+*[http://www.hertsdirect.org/libsleisure/heritage1/HALS/ '''Hertfordshire Record Office''' (HALS)]
+*[http://www.hertsdirect.org/libsleisure/libraries/ Hertfordshire Libraries]
+*[http://www.hertsfhs.org.uk/ Hertfordshire Family History Society]
+*[http://graham.rootsweb.com/herts_exchange/ Hertfordshire Look-up Exchange]
+'''Countywide Interest'''
+*[http://www.hertsdirect.org/ Hertfordshire Council]
+*[http://www.dacorumheritage.org.uk/ Dacorum Heritage Trust]
+*[http://www.genealogyinengland.com/Counties/hertfordshire.htm  Genealogy in Hertfordshire]
+*[http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/ Genealogy in Hertfordshire]
+*[http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Hertfordshire/visitations/index.html Visitations of Hertfordshire 1572 and 1634]
+'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
+*[http://www.berkhamsted.info/localhistoryberkhamsted.htm Berkhamsted History]
+*'''Wiki Page [[Berkhamsted]]'''
+*[http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk/ History of Bishop's Stortford and Thorley]
+*[http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/ Borehamwood and Elstree Times]
+*[http://www.geocities.com/mellowsbrown/ Bovingdon Census Returns, 1841 & 1871]
+*[http://www.bovingdon.org/ Bovingdon]
+*[http://www.busheymuseum.org/ Bushey Museum & Art Gallery - incl. part-time Local Studies section]
+*[http://www.caddhist.moonfruit.com/# Caddington Local History Group]
+*[http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/custompages/CustomPage.aspx?pageID=5034 Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted & Tring Local History]
+*[http://www.hertford.net/index.asp Discover Hertford]
+*[http://www.hunsdon.org.uk/ Hunsdon -includes some Parish Records]
+*[http://www.kingslangley.org.uk/  Kings Langley, Its History and Local Architecture]
+*[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/MIs.html Knebworth and Stevenage Mounumental Inscriptions]
+*[http://www.leighton-linslade.com/lbo/index.php Index to the Leighton Buzzard Observer]
+*[http://www.ldfhg.org.uk/ Letchworth & District History Society]
+*[http://lgchronicle20.homestead.com/CONTENTS.html Leverstock Green History and Genealogy]
+*[http://www.mundens.net/genealogy/ Little Munden, Great Munden and Sacombe Genealogy Pages]
+*[http://www.hoggie.demon.co.uk/markyate/ Markyate Local History Society]
+*'''Wiki Page [[Northchurch]]'''
+*[http://www.pirtonhistory.org.uk/ Pirton Local History Group]
+*[http://www.prestonherts.co.uk/ Preston in the Nineteenth Century]
+*[http://www.puckeridgevillage.co.uk/Home Puckeridge Village History]
+*[http://www.redbourn.org.uk/Redbourn/RedbournGenealogy Redbourn Genealogy Pages]
+*[http://www.roystoncave.co.uk/ Royston Cave- A Knights Templar Legacy]
+*[http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/ Royston & District Museum & Art Gallery ]
+*[http://www.wordoxers.com/hos/main.htm History of Stevenage]
+*[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.hagger1/Therfield/index.htm Therfield]
+*[http://www.btinternet.com/~friends.stjames/Archives.htm The Friends of St James the Great, Thorley]
+*[http://gerald-massey.org.uk/tring/index.htm This is Tring]
+*[http://www.welwyn.org.uk/burialsinsurnameorder.htm Burials in Welwyn Churchyard]
+*[http://www.wheathampstead.net/index.shtml Wheathampstead]
+'''Maps and Photographs'''
+*[http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/websites/herts-churches.htm Hertfordshire Churches]
+*[http://postcards.shibbs.co.uk/ Old Postcards of Barnet]
+==Register Office==
+There are 8 district offices within Hertfordshire.
+Online applications can be made to any office via the following link:
+[http://www.hertsdirect.org/comdirectory/register/copycert/ Hertsdirect Herts Direct]
+Alternatively postal applications can be made to the following district offices:
 '''Bishop Stortford Registration District'''
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 Bishops Stortford<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-CM23 2DL
+CM23 2DL<br>
+Tel 01279 652273 <br>
-Tel 01279 652273
 '''Broxbourne Registration District'''
@@ Line 52: / Line 157: @@
 Cheshunt<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-EN8 9XH
+EN8 9XH<br>
+Tel 01992 623107 <br>
-Tel 01992 623107
 '''Dacorum Registration District'''
@@ Line 63: / Line 169: @@
 Hemel Hempstead<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-HP1 1HR
+HP1 1HR<br>
+Tel 01442 228600<br>
-Tel 01442 228600
 '''Hatfield Registration District'''
@@ Line 72: / Line 179: @@
 Hatfield<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-AL10 0NG
+AL10 0NG<br>
+Tel 01707 283921<br>
-Tel 01707 283921
 '''Hertford and Ware Registration District'''
@@ Line 83: / Line 191: @@
 Hertford<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-SG13 8DE
+SG13 8DE<br>
+Tel: 01992 555590 / 01992 555591<br>
-Tel: 01992 555590 / 01992 555591
 '''St Albans Registration District'''
@@ Line 95: / Line 204: @@
 St Albans<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-AL1 3TF
+AL1 3TF<br>
+Tel: 01727 774030<br>
-Tel: 01727 774030
 '''Stevenage,Hitchin and Royston District'''
@@ Line 105: / Line 215: @@
 Stevenage<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-SG1 1WW
+SG1 1WW<br>
+Tel 01438 316579<br>
-Tel 01438 316579
 '''Watford Registration District'''
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 Watford<br>
 Hertfordshire<br>
-WD17 1JQ
+WD17 1JQ<br>
-Tel 01923 231302
+Tel 01923 231302<br>
+==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
-==Record Office Lookup Requests==
+Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
-Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
+By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
-By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
-'''Record Office Lookup Contacts'''
+'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
 ==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
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 Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
-By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.
+By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
 '''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
-*Berkhamsted [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=128 Jessbowbag]
-*Baldock [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=219 Lindy Tumblethump]
-*Bushey Parish Church [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=153 Christine in Herts]
-*Hitchin and surrounding villages [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=219 Lindy Tumblethump]
-*Northchurch [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=128 Jessbowbag]
-*North Hertfordshire Letchworth [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=219 Lindy Tumblethump]
 *Watford [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=1273 Rumpole]
-*Hertford cemeteries for anyone searching - it would help if it is known whether it is a church or the town cemetery [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=443 Christine (the studier!)]
 ==Photo Offers==
-Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please PM the member with your queries.
+Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.
-*Hertfordshire [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=494 Meridian Line]
-==Links==
-*[http://www.hertsdirect.org/libsleisure/heritage1/HALS/ '''Hertfordshire Record Office''' - Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS)]
-*[http://www.joinermarriageindex.com/pjoiner/genuki/HRT/ GENUKI: Hertfordshire]
-*[http://www.hertsdirect.org/libsleisure/libraries/ Hertfordshire Libraries]
-*[http://www.hertsfhs.org.uk/ Hertfordshire Family History Society]
-*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/herts.html Local History Society Gateway]
-*[http://www.ldfhg.org.uk/ Letchworth & District History Society]
-*[http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/ Genealogy in Hertfordshire]
-*[http://www.genfair.com/shop/pages/hrt/index.html  GENfair - Hertfordshire Family History Society]
-*[http://graham.rootsweb.com/herts_exchange/ Hertfordshire Look-up Exchange]
-*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyHertford.htm#PageTitle IGI Hertfordshire]
-*[http://www.joinermarriageindex.com/pjoiner/genuki/HRT/  Hertfordshire Genuki]
-'''Countywide Interest'''
-*[http://www.dacorumheritage.org.uk/ Dacorum Heritage Trust]
-*[http://www.genealogyinengland.com/Counties/hertfordshire.htm  Genealogy In Hertfordshire]
-*[http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/home.htm Genealogy In Hertfordshire]
-*[http://www.hertsdirect.org/  Hertfordshire Council ]
-*[http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Hertfordshire/visitations/index.html Visitations of Hertfordshire 1572 and 1634]
-*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/herts/hertfordshire_workhouses.htm  Hertfordshire Workhouses]
-'''Specific Town Village Interest'''
-*[http://www.berkhamsted.info/localhistoryberkhamsted.htm Berkhamsted History]
-*[http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk/ History of Bishop's Stortford and Thorley]
-*[http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/ Borehamwood and Elstree Times]
-*[http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/bovingdon.htm Bovingdon]
-*[http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/custompages/CustomPage.aspx?pageID=5034 Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted & Tring Local History]
-*[http://www.hertfordtown.fsnet.co.uk/ Hertford War Memorial]
-*[http://www.kingslangley.org.uk/  Kings Langley, Its History and Local Architecture]
-*[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/MIs.html Knebworth and Stevenage Mounumental Inscriptions]
-*[http://www.leighton-linslade.com/lbo/index.php Index to the Leighton Buzzard Observer]
-*[http://lgchronicle20.homestead.com/CONTENTS.html Leverstock Green History and Genealogy]
-*[http://www.mundens.net/genealogy/ Little Munden, Great Munden and Sacombe Genealogy Pages]
-*[http://www.hoggie.demon.co.uk/markyate/ Markyate Local History Society]
-*[http://www.pirtonhistory.org.uk/ Pirton Local History Group]
-*[http://www.prestonherts.co.uk/ Preston in the Nineteenth Century]
-*[http://www.puckeridgevillage.co.uk/History-Articles Puckeridge Village History]
-*[http://www.redbourn.org.uk/Redbourn/RedbournGenealogy Redbourn Genealogy Pages]
-*[http://www.roystoncave.co.uk/ Royston Cave- A Knights Templar Legacy]
-*[http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/ Royston Museum]
-*[http://www.stotfoldtowncouncil.gov.uk/history/burial/list.php Stotfold Burials]
-*[http://www.wheathampstead.net/index.shtml Wheathampstead]
-'''Maps & Photographs'''
+<br><br>
-*[http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/websites/herts-churches.htm Hertfordshire Chuches]
-*[http://postcards.shibbs.co.uk/ Old Postcards of Barnet]
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+Back to [[England]]