Northchurch Hertfordshire Family History Guide

Northchurch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Friesden and Frithsden.

Alternative names:

• North Berkhampstead
• Berkhampstead St Peter
• Berkhampstead St Mary

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1665
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

• Great Gaddesden
• Hemel Hempstead
• Aldbury
• Great Berkhampstead
• Bovingdon
• Chesham, Buckinghamshire
• Wigginton
• Hawridge, Buckinghamshire

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BERKHAMPSTEAD-ST. MARY, or Northchurch, a parish in Berkhampstead district, Herts; on the Northwestern railway and the Grand Junction canal, averagely 1 mile NW of Berkhampstead, but including part of that town. It has a post-office, of the name of Northchurch, under Berkhampstead. Acres, 3,880. Real property, £7,454. Pop., 1,638. Houses, 334. The property is subdivided. An ancient structure, now used as a farmhouse, was originally part of a small priory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £794. Patron, the Prince of Wales. The church is decorated English, and cruciform. There is a chapel of ease at Broadway, a beautiful edifice, built in 1854. There are also a Baptist chapel, and charities £30.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Hertfordshire, Northchurch

England, Hertfordshire, Berkhampstead-St. Mary – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions, Northchurch, Hertford, England : abt. 1600-1900

England, Hertfordshire, Berkhampstead-St. Mary – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Northchurch, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Hertfordshire, Berkhampstead-St. Mary – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Berkhampstead-St. Mary, 1604-1877
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Berkhampstead-St. Mary (Hertfordshire)

Parish registers for St. Michael’s Mission Church, Berhampstead-St. Mary, 1886-1906
Author: Church of England. St. Michael’s Mission Church (Berkhampstead-St. Mary, Hertfordshire)

Parish registers of Berkhampstead-St. Mary, 1564-1918.
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Berkhampstead-St. Mary (Hertfordshire)

Parish registers, 1855-1915
Author: Church of England. St. John’s Broadway Church (Berkhampstead-St. Mary); Church of England. St. Michael’s Church (Sunnyside, Hertfordshire)

Transcripts of registers of Northchurch, 1606-1810
Author: Tann, Edward

Vestry minutes and miscellaneous parish records, 1650-1895
Author: Berkhampstead-St. Mary (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, Berkhampstead-St. Mary – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of North Church, Herts., Eng

Parish register printouts of Berkhampstead-St. Mary, Hertford, England ; christenings, 1763-1849
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Hertfordshire, Berkhampstead-St. Mary – Military records – Militia ( 2 )
Militia lists, parish of Northchurch
Author: Hill, John

Militia lists, parish of Wigginton
Author: Hill, John

England, Hertfordshire, Berkhampstead-St. Mary – Occupations ( 1 )
Vestry minutes and miscellaneous parish records, 1650-1895
Author: Berkhampstead-St. Mary (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, Berkhampstead-St. Mary – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Vestry minutes and miscellaneous parish records, 1650-1895
Author: Berkhampstead-St. Mary (Hertfordshire)

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