Great Munden Hertfordshire Family History Guide

Great Munden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Dane End, Haultwick, Artic, Nasty, and Munden Furnival.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MUNDEN (Great), a parish in Ware district, Herts; 2 miles W by S of Braughing r. station, and 6½ N of Ware. It contains the hamlet of Munden-Furnival, and parts of the hamlets of Dane-End and Haultwick; and its post town is Ware. Acres, 3, 352. Real property, £5, 124. Pop. in 1851, 554; in 1861, 457. Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few. Rowne a nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by the Duke of Brittany; but went to extinction before the time of Henry VI. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £705. Patron, King’s College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, but mainly decorated English, with some interpolated windows of later English; went into a ruinous condition; was restored, throughout the body, in 1866; and has a tower in still a dilapidated state. There is a parochial school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Hertfordshire, Great Munden – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Nicholas, Great Munden, Hertford, England
Author: Rowe, Anne; Hertfordshire Family and Population History Society

Monumental inscriptions, Great Munden, Hertford, England : abt. 1600-1900

England, Hertfordshire, Great Munden – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Great Munden, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Hertfordshire, Great Munden – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Great Munden, 1604-1868
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Munden (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, Great Munden, parish registers

Parish registers and miscellaneous public records, 1558-1939
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Munden (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, Great Munden – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Great Munden, Herts., Eng.

Parish register printouts of Great Munden, Hertford, England ; christenings, 1814-1849
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Great Munden, Hertford, England ; marriages, 1814-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Hertfordshire, Great Munden – Military records – Militia ( 1 )
Militia lists, parish of Great Munden
Author: Hill, John

England, Hertfordshire, Great Munden – Public records ( 1 )
Parish registers and miscellaneous public records, 1558-1939
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Munden (Hertfordshire)

Administration

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