A History of Preston in Hertfordshire
A History of Preston in Hertfordshire
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Preston History
“Preston” defined
Preston’s manors and parishes
A detailed history to 1700:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Two maps from 17thC & 18thC
A Roman Road at Preston?
The Preston/Gosmore tumulus
The Nuns of Elstow
Preston history by N Freebody
Mrs Maybrick’s Scrapbook:
Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4 Pt 5 Pt 6
Preston people in 17th century
Traditions of Bunyan at Preston
Herts Sessions re: Preston
Visits to Preston: 1890s, 1913,
1970
Parish News 1900 - 1941:
Part 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4
Preston and World War Two
Temple Dinsley
Temple Dinsley - an overview
Changing face of TD 1541 - 1907
86 views of T Dinsley 1907-1989
The gardens of Temple Dinsley
Rose garden of T Dinsley Pt1 Pt2
The owners
The Ithells of Temple Dinsley
Thomas Harwood Svt and Esq
The Darton family Part 1
The Pryor family 1874 - 1901
J Barrington-White 1901 - 1908
Mr & Mrs Fenwick 1908 - 1918
Douglas Vickers 1918 - 1929
Almina Countess of Carnarvon
Princess Helena College PHC
The tenants
Thomas Halsey 1840 - 1844
John Weeks 1869 - 1879
Henry Brand 1880 - 1889
Frederick MacMillan 1891 - 1901
The Cottage/Dower House
The Temple Dinsley Lodges
Preston Places
Cottages
An overview of the cottages
Tracing the history of cottages
Back Lane
Chequers Lane - NE side
Chequers Cottages
Church Lane - North side
Crunnells Green/ School Lane
Crunnells Green/Back Lane
Hill Farm Lane
Hitchwood Cottages, 1 & 2
Holly Cottages
Jacks Hill/Poynders End
Kiln Wood Cottage
(The) Old Forge
Preston Green
Sootfield Green
Spindle Cottage
Swedish Houses
(The) Wilderness
Farms
Castle Farm
Home Farm, Hitchin Road
Minsden Farm/Ladygrove
Offley Holes Farm
Pond Farm
Poynders End Farm
Preston Hill Farm
Temple Farm
Inns
The Chequers
The Red Lion
Community buy out of Red Lion
Red Lion CAMRA award 8/2021
Houses
Hill End
Offley Holes House
Poynders End
Stagenhoe
Minsden Chapel
Wain Wood and Bunyan’s Dell
The ‘lost’ Manor of Welei
The ‘Waste’ of Crunnells Green
The Trees of Preston Green
Straightening Preston Hill Road
The Preston/Gosmore tumulus
Affordable housing 2014/15
Sir Edwin Lutyens and Preston
The Mission Room
Preston Life
Agriculture and Ag Labourers
Allotments
Beating the Parish boundaries
Benefit Clubs
Best-kept Herts village (1950s)
Cricket: Pt 1 Pt 2
Crime
(The) Fair, Sheep and Fun-fair
Football
Mobility
Morality
Ponds
Preston’s Pound
Straw plaiting
Tennis
Wells and Wind pumps
Religion at Preston
An overview
The two Anglican churches
Photos within St Martins
Parish News: P1, Pt2, Pt3, Pt4
Minsden Chapel
Nonconformity at Preston
Bunyan’s Chapel
Back St Meetng House, Hitchin
Education
History of Preston’s 3 schools
School mistresses
Attendance and absenteeism
Literacy
Preston School 1900 - 1939
Eugenics and Preston School
Daily Mirror story:
Newspaper Stories
Introduction
Preston Hill ‘Murder’/robbery
Parsonage Farm Fire
A breach of promise story
Arson
Assault
Drunkenness
Family Disputes
Farmers and dealers
Poaching
Highway offences
Theft and robbery
Manslaughter
Miscellaneous - Part 1 Part 2
Data
Analysis of 19thC children
Preston births and baptisms
Preston Marriages 1800 - 1900
Marriages St Martins 1909-1985
Deaths at Preston - an overview
Burials 1800 - 1900
Burials, St Martins 1906 - 2009
Censuses
General notes
1801,1807 and 1821 Censuses
1841 Census
1851 Census
1861 Census
1871 Census
1881 Census
1886 Religious census
1891 Census
1901 Census
1911 Census
1921 Census
1939 Register
Militia Lists 1750 - 1785
1811c Preston map and award
1837 Rates book
Manorial records of T Dinsley
Wills of Preston people
Preston people
Preston soldiers of WW1
People of Prestion 1930 - 1951
People 1952 - 85 Pt1, Pt2, Pt3
A photo gallery of Preston folk
A Preston lane death in 1930
A sad suicide in 1933
An odd incident c1865
Althams: Crunnells Green House
Armstrong family
Ashton family
Barker, Rose - schoolmistress
Blanchards of Rose Cottage
Cook, Arthur of Stagenhoe
Cook, Rebecca Preston poems
Corbett, Margaret - School Head
Currell, Thomas
Dawson, Mr and Mrs RDJW
Freebody, Nina - Preston historian
Gribble, Norah, Julian and
Mrs Leslie Seebohm
Gunning,S of Langley End Cottage
Foxe twins - poachers
Hadfield, John of Sadleirs End,
Hall, Samuel
Hammonds of Sootfield Green
The Heath family of the 17thC
Hinde, Robert: Preston Castle
Hine, Reginald - Historian
Jenkins, Cecil and Maggie
Jenkins, Herbie of Castle Farm
Margaret Meadows’ Scrapbook
Middleditch, Dick
Newell, Leonard and Eileen
Pedder, William 1837 - 1919
Peters family
Peters, David - recollections
Phillips, Nurse: first midwife
Priestley, (Sir) Joseph Child
Pryor, Armigel
Pryor, Ralston and Geoffrey
Sansom, Chris - historian
Scott family of Church Road
Seebohms of Poynders End
Smith, Sidney 4 Chequers Cotts
Soldene. Emily - musical star
Soldene, Emily and Preston
Soto, Sam at Preston 1969 -1972
Stanley, William (Bill) and Rose
Stevens, Simon - teacher
Sunderland, Robert memoires
Swain, early family
Swain tree, early
Swain tree, early - notes
Swain tree, late
Swain, James 1824 - 1898
Swain, Charles and descendants
Swain, Stephen
Thrussell, ‘Blind Bob’: postman
Turl, Mary - postwoman
Upchurch, Frederick - postman
Waller family, builders of Preston
Whitbread, Chalkley: farmer
My DNA test and Preston
The Books
Preston - in print and on screen
Family Tree magazine
Preston Victorian School
The lost manor of Welei
Creating a family history website
Writing a local history book
Using an expert for family history
Family Tree Monthly
Fairey Tales
The Villager
Re: Preston
Hertfordshire Life
Re: Preston
Hitchin Comet
Hitchin History Day
3 Preston folk in books 2015-21
Preston in film, TV and radio
A History of Preston in Hertfordshire
Wray family history
The History of Preston in
Hertfordshire
1) Details of the book
2) The book launch and signing
St Martin’s, Preston, Hertfordshire
Details of the booklet
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Wray:
Family tree
Notes re: tree
Wrays and hurdlemaking
Grtx4 grandparents: John and Ann Wray
Grtx3 grandparents: Henry and Anne Wray
Grtx2 grandparents: Robert and Jane Wray
Great grandparents: Charles and Elizabeth Wray
Grandparents: Alfred and Emily Wray
Uncle: Arthur Wray b1883
Son, Charlie Wray bn 1910
Grandson, Rodney Wray bn 1934
Uncle: Charles Wray bn 1884
Carrie Pell/Wray bn 1886
Alice Snelling/Wray bn 1888
Flossie Sugden/Wray bn 1889
Ern(est) Wray bn 1892
Bob Wray bn 1893
Nan Wray bn 1896
Ada Hitchman/Wray bn 1898
Frank Wray bn 1899
Jack Wray bn 1901
Dick Wray bn 1904
Sam Wray bn 1905
Wife, Grace Mills bn 1912
Maggie Whitby/Wray bn 1908
Ellis Wray, Luton bn 1877
Tingey:
Ward:
Grtx4 grandparents: Joseph and Elizabeth Ward
Grtx3 & 2 grandparents William and Mary Ward
Family tree
Notes re: tree
Fairey:
Early Fairey history
Grtx5 grandparents: Richard (II) and Sarah Fairey
Grtx4 grandparents: Richard (lll) and Elizabeth Fairey
Grtx3 grandparents: John and Jane Fairey
Grtx2 grandparents: Samuel and Elizabeth Fairey
Great grandmother: Mary Currell (nee Fairey)
Family tree
Notes re: tree
“A Fairey Tale” in Family History Monthly magazine
Breed/Barker
Family history
Breed family tree
Bradding/Bradden
Family history
Cox
Grtx2 grandparents: George and Mary Cox
Grt grandfather: William Cox
Early Watchtower History articles:
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