A History of
Preston in Hertfordshire
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A history of Preston

Preston history: N Freebody

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Preston’s administration

1844 Tithe map

Manorial records - general

Temple D. manor records

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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

    General

    Anglican churches

     The building of

        St Martins             

    Bunyans Chapel

    Minsden Chapel

 

 

 

News stories

    Introduction

    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

            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

Preston families:

  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)

  and his descendents

 

General notes

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

Family tree

Notes re: tree

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

Ward:

Family history

Family tree

Notes re: tree

   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