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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Thundridge is a village and parish in eastern Hertfordshire, England. It is about two miles away from the town of Ware and about seven miles away from Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire. The parish includes the hamlets of Cold Christmas and Wareside. In 1952 the parish borders were redrawn, transferring a portion of Standon into Thundridge, and transferring a portion of Thundridge into Ware Rural parish. The present parish had a population of 1,406 in the UK census of 2011.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Thundridge from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- THUNDRIDGE, a parish in Ware [registration] district, Herts; 2¼ miles N by E of Ware [railway] station. It contains Wades-Mill village, which has a post-office under Ware. Acres: 2,200. Real property: £3,956. Population: 489. Houses: 91. The manor belongs to W. G. Puller, Esq. Poles is the seat of R. Hanbury, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £150. Patron: R. Hanbury, Esq. The church was built in 1853. There are a free school, and charities £45.
Research Tips
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
- Hertfordshire Family History Society
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- GENUKI outlines information for genealogists for the county. It is also a doorway to pages covering individual parishes.
- Joiner's Marriage Index is available for Hertfordshire on GENUKI. Individual parishes are covered separately.
- Wikimedia Commons has a variety of maps of Hertfordshire, and parts of Hertfordshire, past and present.
- A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
- The FamilySearch Wiki lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
- The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
- The hundred of Braughing: Introduction and map as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 3, pp 289-291
- The parish of Thundridge ibid, volume 3, pp 377-380
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