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Preston history: N Freebody
‘Preston’ defined
Preston’s administration
1844 Tithe map
Manorial records - general
Temple D. manor records
Contact page
Introduction
Temple Dinsley
The cottages of Preston
The Chequers
The Red Lion
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: Bunyan’s Dell and cottage.
A visit to Minsden Chapel - August 2008
Sir Edwin Lutyens’ legacy
Agriculture/labourers
Straw plaiting
Crime
Mobility
Ponds
Roads
The pound at Preston
Preston allotments
Cricket
Best kept village 1950s
Education
General
Pupils in school logbook
School mistresses
List of teachers
Attendance
Literacy
School photos 1896 - 1922 and school closure 1977
Religion
Anglican churches
The building of
St Martins
Bunyans Chapel
Minsden Chapel
News stories
Preston Hill robbery
Arson
Assault
Drunkenness
Family disputes
Farmers and dealers
Poaching
Highway offences
Theft and robbery
Manslaughter
Births and baptisms:
Chronological List
Alphabetical List
Marriages: 1800-1900
St Martins 1909-1985
Burials 1800 - 1900
Censuses:
General notes
1801
1821
1841 Analysis
Census
Alphabetical list
1851 Analysis
1861 Analysis
1871 Analysis
1881 Analysis
1886 Religious census
1891 Analysis
1901 Analysis
1911 Analysis
Militia Lists - Preston
Preston families:
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)
and his descendents
Wray:
Family history to 1900
Family tree
Notes re: tree
Charles Wray b1820
Alfred Wray b1858
Arthur Wray b1883
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
Grace Mills/Wray b1912
Maggie Whitby/Wray b1908
Ellis Wray, Luton b 1877
Fairey:
Family history
Currell:
Currells of Preston/Hitchin
Currells around Hitchin:
Of Willian
Of Norton
Of Aston
Ward:
Trees of the Green
1837 Preston Rate Book
Nina Freebody: Preston
historian
New stories Mar 2008
New stories Oct 2008
New stories Nov 2008
St Martin’s - consecration
Morality
Castle Farm
Home Farm, Hitchin Road
The Plait Girl - a poem
Traditions of Sterne and Bunyan
Norah Gribble and Mrs Leslie Seebohm
A visit to St Martins. The Back Street Meeting House, Hitchin.
The Seebohms of Poynders End
Visits to Preston - 1890s, 1913 and 1970
The Cottage aka
The Dower House
The Pryor family
James Barrington-White
New subjects in September 2010 are shown in red
Click on link below to be viewed
Preston soldiers of WW I
St Martin’s burials - 1906 - 2009
Samuel Hall
Chalkley Whitbread -
bankrupt Preston farmer
Simon and Rebecca Stevens
The ‘Ghost’ of Minsden Chapel and a poem (c1750)
A deserted village near Preston?
Holly Cottages, Back Lane
Sootfield Green
37 views of Temple Dinsley
From 1913
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How this website evolved - inc. an article in Family Tree magazine 4/2010
Village life by pupils at Preston school 100 years ago is published
The Scott family of Church Road