Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Edwinstree |
| County | Hertfordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Bishop’s Stortford |
| Registration District | Bishop Stortford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1539 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1829 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Buntingford |
| Diocese | Pre-1846 - London; Post-1845 - Rochester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral; Post-1844 - Court of the Archdeaconry of St Albans |
| Location of Archive | |
| Hertfordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Brent-Pelham (Virgin Mary), is a parish in the Bishop-Stortford district of Hertfordshire, and 5 miles E of Buntingford railway station.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| HERTS = Hertfordshire Names Online - free[2] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] |
| Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| HERTS | To 1837 | |||||
| NBI | 1800-1851 | |||||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Hertfordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Brent Pelham on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Adapted. Date accessed: 12 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Marriages and Marriage Licences (1538-1922),' Hertfordshire County Council, accessed 6 March 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 12 December 2013.
