A History of Preston

in Hertfordshire

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‘Preston’ defined

Preston’s administration

Agriculture/labourers

Straw plaiting

The Plait Girl - a poem

Crime

Morality

Mobility

Ponds

Roads

The pound at Preston

Preston allotments

Cricket

Best kept village 1950s

Temple Dinsley - an introduction

86 photographs mainly of Temple Dinsley dated 1913c and 1989

The Cottage aka The Dower House

Princess Helena College and Preston

 

Owners

The Pryor family 1874 - 1901

The Fenwicks 1908 - 1918.

Barrington-White 1901 - 1908

Almina Countess of Carnarvon and Ian Dennistoun 1929 - 1934

Introduction

Armstrong

Ashton

Hinde, Robert

Peters

Swain (later family)

Stephen Swain

Emily Soldene: opera star

Emily and Preston

(Early) Swain saga

(Early) Swain tree

Notes re: Swain tree

Charles Swain (bn 1818)

Seebohms of PoyndersEnd

Norah Gribble and Mrs Leslie Seebohm

Preston soldiers of WW I

Nina Freebody: Preston Historian

Samuel Hall

Chalkley Whitbread - bankrupt Preston  farmer

Simon and Rebecca Stevens

The Scott family of Church Road

Miss Rose Barker (Preston schoolmistress)

Armigel Pryor (of ‘The Cottage)

William (Bill) and Rose Stanley

Dick Middleditch

The Wallers - builders of Preston

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Fairey:

 

Early Fairey history

Family history

Family tree

Notes re: tree

“A Fairey Tale” article in FHM

 

Currell:

 

Currells of Preston/Hitchin

   Family tree

   Notes re: tree   

  News stories

Currells around Hitchin:

   Of Willian

   Family tree

   Notes re: tree

   Of Norton

   Family tree

   Notes re: tree

   News stories

   Of Aston

   Family tree

   Notes re: tree

My family at Preston

Preston life

Data

Preston history

Site information

Newspaper stories

Temple Dinsley

Preston places

Religion

Preston people

Education

General notes

 

Wray:

 

Family history to 1900

Family tree

Notes re: tree

Charles Wray b1820

Alfred Wray b1858

Arthur Wray b1883

    Son, Charlie Wray b1910

Charles Wray b1884

Carrie Pell/Wray b1886

Alice Snelling/Wray b1888

Flossie Sugden/Wray b1889

Ern Wray b1893

Bob Wray b1893

Nan Wray 1896

Ada Hitchman/Wray b1898

Frank Wray b1899

Jack Wray b1900

Dick Wray b1903

Sam Wray b1905

    Wife, Grace Mills b1912

Maggie Whitby/Wray b1908

Ellis Wray, Luton b 1877

 

Ward:

 

Family history

Family tree

Notes re: tree

 

Breed/Barker

 

Family history

Breed family tree

General

First school 1818 - 1832c

 

School Lane School 1849 - 1977

Pupils in school logbook

School mistresses

List of teachers   

Attendance

Literacy

School photos 1896 - 1922 and school closure 1977

Preston school 100 years ago (Daily Mirror)

Preston School 1873 - 1901 FTM

General

Local Anglican churches

 

St Martin’s

The building of St Martin’s

St Martin’s - consecration

A visit to St Martin’s

Preston Parish News 1900 - 1941

 

Bunyans Chapel

 

Minsden Chapel

A visit to Minsden Chapel - August 2008

Ghost’ of Minsden Chapel and a poem (c1750)

 

Back Street Meeting House, Hitchin

Births and baptisms:

Chronological List

Alphabetical List

Marriages:

1800-1900

St Martins 1909 - 1985

Burials:

1800 - 1900

St Martins 1906 - 2009

Censuses:

General notes

1801

1807

1821

1841  Analysis

          Census

          Alphabetical list

1851  Analysis

          Census

          Alphabetical list

1861  Analysis

          Census

          Alphabetical list

1871  Analysis

          Census

          Alphabetical list

1881  Analysis

          Census

          Alphabetical list

1886  Religious census

1891  Analysis

          Census

          Alphabetical list

1901  Analysis

          Census

         Alphabetical list

1911  Analysis

          Census

          Alphabetical list

Militia Lists - Preston

1844 Tithe map

Manorial records of Temple Dinsley

1837 Preston Rate Book

ntroduction

The cottages of Preston

Sir Edwin Lutyens’ legacy

The Chequers

The Red Lion

Community buy out of Red Lion

Preston Green

Trees of Preston Green

Blacksmiths/Church Lane

Crunnells Green

Church/School Lane

The Wilderness

Back Lane

Chequers Lane

Poynders End/Jacks Hill

Hill End

Preston Hill Farm

Pond Farm

Wain Wood and Bunyan’s Dell

Castle Farm

Home Farm, Hitchin Road

Holly Cottages, Back Lane

Sootfield Green

Kiln Wood

Stagenhoe

Welei

FTM article re: ‘lost’ village of Welei.

Straightening Preston Hill road 1819

 

An exhaustive history of Preston

Preston history by N Freebody

Mrs Maybrick’s original Preston Scrapbook (1953)

Preston people in the 17C

Tracing the history of Preston’s cottages - an introduction

Earliest map of Preston

Visits to Preston -1890s, 1913, 1970

Traditions of Sterne and Bunyan

Preston Parish News 1900  - 1941

Wills of Preston people

1640 - 1839

 

 

 

 

 

My family, the Braddings

Introduction

Preston Hill robbery

Arson

Assault

Drunkenness

Family disputes

Farmers and dealers

Poaching

Highway offences

Theft and robbery

Manslaughter

New stories Mar 2008

New stories Oct 2008

New stories Nov 2008

News stories Jan 2012