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...
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...
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...
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...
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...