Specialised Publications

Specialised transcripts and guides relating to Hertfordshire.

Baptist Church Books 1675-1810

A transcription giving members lists and the comings and goings of a Baptist Community based in and around Kensworth and St Albans (Beds., Bucks. and Herts.) from 1675 to 1810. This 140 page A5 book includes an introduction, illustrations, map and index to 500 surnames and 200 places....

Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-SP009

Hertfordshire and its Ancient Parishes at the end of the 19th century.

This map shows not only the parishes of Hertfordshire but also selected parishes in the adjacent counties. There is also a listing of the parishes with a simple grid reference system to help locate them on the map. A3 in size (397 by 420mm) - folded in half for dispatch...

Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-MAP7

Hertfordshire BURIAL index 1800-1851 - on CD-ROM

The Hertfordshire Burial Index holds 137,000 names and is complete for the years 1800-1851. It includes all known Parish Register entries plus Burials from Non-Conformist Churches and Chapels. Full transcriptions from all known deposited registers for the County with information not included on the National Burial Index.>Note: No responsibility is accepted for errors or omissions in transcription....

Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-CD01

Hertfordshire Marriage Links 1538-1837

The Allen Marriage Index 1538-1837, available on line at the Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies (HALS), includes only marriages that took place in Hertfordshire. This database contains marriages, banns and licences outside the county where one or both were Hertfordshire people, including a few instances of forbidden banns. Additionally are included marriage licences where a Hertfordshire churc...

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Hertfordshire Militia Ballot Lists - on CD-ROM

Alphabetical lists of Hertfordshire men aged between 18 and 45 who were eligible for service in the Militia forces of England. The ballot lists date from 1758 to 1786, exceptionally to 1801. Hertfordshire has an exceptionally large collection of these lists, although not fully complete. They are the nearest thing we have to a census of the period. Presented here in Adobe (Version 8 and above) Port...

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Hertfordshire Obituaries 1801-1837 as recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine

The Hertfordshire Obituaries which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine in the period 1801-1837. The listing provides a reference to most of the important and notable personages of the period, yet not all were from "the great and the good". A 108 page A5 book extracted and annotated by Alan Ruston....

Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-SP008

Hertfordshire Old Poor Law Records - on CD-ROM

The Elizabethan Old Poor Law covers the period from 1602 until the Poor Law Reform Act of 1834. This extract includes all the Settlement, Removal and Examination records available at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. Few records have survived before the 18th century. The records are fully searchable using a catalogue index and are presented in PDF format. Using the facilities of Adobe Read...

Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-CD08

Hertfordshire Old Poor Law Records - on USB stick

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Hertfordshire Places. An alphabetical finding aid for historical place-names in Hertfordshire

A handy must-have guide to anyone researching ancestors in Hertfordshire. To locate all those out of the way places in the county with grid references and other useful information. Compiled by Margaret Ward. An A5 64 page book....

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Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions at Hertford 1588-1619

Quarter Sessions were Court proceedings held four times a year, presided over by a panel of Justices. In this period they dealt with not just law and order but also many administrative tasks that were later carried out by Local Government bodies. This searchable database provides a unique index compiled by the Hertfordshire Family History Society from sources at Hertfordshire Archives & Local Stud...

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Hertfordshire Removal Orders

This 130 page A4 book lists in alphabetical order details of surviving Removal Orders from the late 17th Century to the early 19th Century held at Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies, Hertford. The text, which covers some 3,000 individuals and family groups, includes family details, the parish removed from and removed to, the document reference and other pertinent information. ...

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Hertfordshire Settlement Certificates

This 250 page A4 book lists in alphabetical order details of surviving Settlement Certificate records from the late 17th Century to the early 19th Century held at Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies, Hertford. The text, which covers some 5,000 individuals and family groups, includes not only details of actual certificates but also, and often where they have disappeared, lists of the issue of su...

Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-SP003

Non-Conformity in Hertfordshire (A Guide to Sources for Local and Family Historians)

This 64 page A5 guide, compiled and written by Alan Ruston, is designed to help the researcher to locate references to a particular chapel or congregation in Hertfordshire. It is not a comprehensive history of those congregations nor a narrative account but a source in which to dip. The work only covers Christianity in its historic forms, e.g. Presbyterians, Unitarians, Baptists, Quakers etc. Fir...

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