Ware, Hertfordshire Family History Guide

Ware is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Hertfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Amwell End.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1558; see also Thundridge
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1801

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Irvingite (Catholic Apostolic Church), Presbyterian, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Lady Huntingond’s Connexion and Roman Catholic.

Adjacent Parishes

• Bengeo
• Stanstead Abbots
• Wareside
• Great Amwell
• Thundridge
• Hertford All Saints with St John

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WARE, a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Herts.

The town stands on the river Lea, and on the Eastern Counties railway, 2½ miles ENE of Hertford; was called Guare or Guaris by the Saxons, and Waras at Domesday.

It was the scene of a manœuvre by the Danes, who brought up their vessels to it and constructed a dam across the river to defend them, and of the counteraction of that manœuvre by Alfred, who diverted the water from the river’s bed and stranded the vessels.

It belonged, at Domesday, to Hugh de Grentemaisnel, who founded at it a Benedictine priory, a cell to Uticain abbey, in Normandy: passed to R. Blanchmains, the Earls of Winchester, the Wakes, the Hollands, the Montacutes, the Nevilles, the Plantagenets, the Fanshaws, and the Bydes; was, in 1242, the place of a tournament, at which the Earl of Pembroke was trampled to death; suffered damage by a flood in 1408; is noted by Shakespear, Johnson, and other writers for possession of an ancient carved oak bedstead, still to be seen at one of its inns.

It is now a seat of petty-sessions; includes, on the opposite side of the Lea, a suburb called Amwell-End.

It carries on malting, brewing, ropemaking, and sack-making; and has a head post-office, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, two chief inns, a police station, a town hall, a corn-exchange of 1867, a cattle-market of 1868, an iron bridge of 1845, a public library and reading room, a fine ancient church recently restored at a cost of £5,810, another church of 1858, three dissenting chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £50 a year, national and British schools, two suites of alms houses, a workhouse, general charities £303, a weekly market on Tuesday, and two annual fairs. Pop. in 1861, 5,002. Houses, 1,005.

The parish includes Wareside hamlet, and comprises 4,700 acres. Real property, £31,057; of which £100 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 5,088; in 1861, 5,397. Houses, 1,077.

The head living or St. Mary’s is a vicarage, and that of Christchurch is a p. curacy, in the diocese of Rochester. Value of St. M., £350; of C., £150. Patron, of St. M., Trinity College, Cambridge; of C., R. Hanbury, Esq.; the p. curacy of Wareside is a separate benefice.

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

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Albany John, Ware, Herts, bargemaster, March 18, 1826.

Parish Records

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England, Hertfordshire, Ware – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions of the parish churches of St. Mary, Ware and Holy Trinity, Wareside
Author: Hertfordshire Family History Society

Monumental inscriptions, Ware, Hertford, England : abt. 1600-1900

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

England, Hertfordshire, Ware – Church records ( 17 )
Baptisms for French Horn Lane Church in Ware, 1832-1840
Author: Irvingite Church. French Horn Lane (Ware, Hertfordshire)

Births and baptisms, 1786-1836
Author: Old Meeting House (Dead Lane, Ware, Hertfordshire : Presbyterian)

Births and baptisms, 1787-1807
Author: Old Meeting House (Swan Yard, Ware, Hertfordshire : Presbyterian)

Births and baptisms, 1811-1837
Author: Independent Church (Ware)

Bishop’s transcripts for Ware, 1629-1630
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ware (Hertfordshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Ware, 1801-1843
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ware (Hertfordshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Thundridge (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, Ware Christ Church, parish registers

England, Hertfordshire, Ware, parish registers

Marriage records, 1837-1874
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Ware)

Marriage records, 1859-1914
Author: Church of England. Christ Church (Ware, Hertfordshire)

Parish chest materials, 1724-1858
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ware (Hertfordshire)

Parish register extracts and monumental inscriptions, 1560-1850
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ware (Hertfordshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1558-1653
Author: Church of England. St. Mary-the-Virgin Church (Ware, Hertfordshire); Bull, W. J.

Parish registers for Christ Church, Ware, 1858-1911
Author: Church of England. Christ Church (Ware, Hertfordshire)

Parish registers for St. Mary-the-Virgin Church, Ware, 1558-1950
Author: Church of England. St. Mary-the-Virgin Church (Ware, Hertfordshire)

Parish registers for Wareside, 1841-1959
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Wareside (Hertfordshire)

Parish registers, 1653-1901, and a transcript of baptisms, 1558-1653
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ware (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, Ware – Church records – Indexes ( 9 )
Computer printout of Ware, French Horn Lane Catholic, Herts., Eng

Computer printout of Ware, Herts., Eng

Computer printout of Ware, Old Meeting Dead Lane Independent, Herts., Eng

Computer printout of Ware, Old Meeting Swan Yard Presbyterian, Herts., Eng

Computer printout of Ware, The New Meeting Independent, Herts., Eng

Parish register printouts of Ware, Hertford, England (Catholic, French Horn Lane) ; christenings, 1834-1840
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Ware, Hertford, England (Independent, Old Meeting, Dead Lane) ; christenings, 1786-1836
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Ware, Hertford, England (Independent, The New Meeting) ; christenings, 1811-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Ware, Hertford, England (Presbyterian, Old Meeting Swan Yard) ; christenings, 1787-1807
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Hertfordshire, Ware – Military records ( 1 )
Militial lists, parish of Ware, Hertfordshire, 1758-1801
Author: Hill, John; Hill, Christine; Hoddesdon House Group (England); Hertfordshire Family and Population History Society

England, Hertfordshire, Ware – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
Parish chest materials, 1724-1858
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ware (Hertfordshire)

Removal order book and miscellaneous parish records, 1704-1934
Author: Ware (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, Ware – Public records ( 1 )
Removal order book and miscellaneous parish records, 1704-1934
Author: Ware (Hertfordshire)

Administration

• County: Hertfordshire
• Civil Registration District: Ware
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
• Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – London
• Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Braughing, Post-1844 – Ware
• Poor Law Union: Ware
• Hundred: Braughing
• Province: Canterbury