Aldbury, Hertfordshire Family History Guide

Aldbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Theobald Street.

Parish church: St. John the Baptist

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1694
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: General Baptist and Particular Baptist.

Parishes adjacent to Aldbury

• Great Berkhampstead
• Northchurch
• Wigginton
• Pitstone, Buckinghamshire
• Tring
• Nettleden, Buckinghamshire

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALDBURY, a parish in Berkhampstead district, Herts; under the Chiltern hills, 1 mile E of Tring r. station, and 3¼ NNE of Berkhampstead. It has a post-office under Tring. Acres, 2,071. Real property, £2,902. Pop., 848. Houses, 179. The manor was possessed by the Verneys, the Andersons, and the Hydes; and now belongs to the Duke of Leeds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £448. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is early English, with a square embattled tower; and contains some ancient tombs. Charities, £26 and poors’ cottages.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

ALDBURY, a parish in the hund. of Dacorum, union of Berkhamstead, county of Hertford; 2½ miles north-east of Tring; 1 mile from the Tring station, on the London and Birmingham railroad. Living, a rectory in the archd. of Huntingdon and dio. of Lincoln; rated at £20 8s. 6½d.; gross income £450. Patrons, in 1835, the trustees of the earl of Bridgewater. The church is an ancient structure in the early English style, with a square embattled tower. Charities to the poor of this parish amount to £23. Pop., in 1801, 457; in 1831, 695. Houses 133. Acres 2,020. A. P. £1,942. Poor rates, in 1837, £322

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Aldbury, 2¾m. N.E. Tring. P. 790

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Parish Records

Administration

• County: Hertfordshire
• Civil Registration District: Berkhampstead
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
• Diocese:
• Post-1844 – Rochester,
• Pre-1845 – Lincoln
• Rural Deanery: Berkhampstead
• Poor Law Union: Berkhampstead
• Hundred: Dacorum
• Province: Canterbury