High Cross Hertfordshire Family History Guide

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High Cross is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hertfordshire, created in 1845 from Standon Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1846
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1846

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HIGH CROSS, a hamlet and a chapelry in Standon parish, Herts. The hamlet lies 3 miles W of Hadham r. station, and 3 N of Ware. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Post town, Ware. Pop., 819. Houses, 170. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £150. Patron, W. G. Puller, Esq. The church is modern, and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and bell turret.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Hertfordshire, High Cross – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for High Cross, 1846-1858
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of High Cross (Hertfordshire)

Parish registers for High Cross, 1846-1959
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of High Cross (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, High Cross – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of High Cross, Herts., Eng

England, Hertfordshire, High Cross – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Vestry minutes, 1847-1925
Author: High Cross (Hertfordshire)

England, Hertfordshire, High Cross – Public records ( 1 )
Vestry minutes, 1847-1925
Author: High Cross (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 – Bishop’s Stortford
  • Poor Law Union: Ware
  • Hundred: Braughing
  • Province: Canterbury