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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bushey from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BUSHEY, a village, a parish, and a [registration] subdistrict, in Watford district, Herts. The village stands ¾ of a mile E of the North Western railway, near the river Colne, 1½ mile SE of Watford; has a station on the railway and a post office under Watford; and was once a market town. The parish includes also Bushey-Heath, which likewise has a post office under Watford, and is 3 miles from that town. Acres: 3,188. Real property: £15,586. Population: 3,159. Houses: 680. The property is much subdivided. The manor was given by William the Conqueror to Geoffrey de Mandeville; and passed afterwards to the Crown. Bushey-Manor-House, Bushey-Grove, and Bushey-Grange are chief residences. The high grounds of Bushey-Heath command an extensive and beautiful view. The living is a rectory, united with the [perpetual] curacy of St. Peter, in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £765. Patron: Exeter College, Oxford. The parish church is tolerable; and St. Peter's church is modern and very good. There are three dissenting chapels and three public schools. The [registration] subdistrict contains two parishes. Population: 4,928. Houses: 1,032.
Local government in the early 20th century
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Bushey was an ancient civil parish. It was divided into two by the Local Government Act 1894: the part which was within the Watford Urban District became the "Bushey Urban" parish and a second urban district separate from Watford; and the part which was outside the bounds of Watford became Bushey Rural parish in the Watford Rural District. Subsequently, in 1906, the Bushey Urban parish was renamed Oxhey, and the Bushey Rural parish became the parish of Bushey within the Bushey Urban District.
History
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Bushey.
Research Tips
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
- Hertfordshire Family History Society
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- GENUKI outlines information for genealogists for the county. It is also a doorway to pages covering individual parishes.
- Joiner's Marriage Index is available for Hertfordshire on GENUKI. Individual parishes are covered separately.
- Wikimedia Commons has a variety of maps of Hertfordshire, and parts of Hertfordshire, past and present.
- A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
- The FamilySearch Wiki lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
- The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
- The hundred of Dacorum: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 141-142
- The parish of Bushey ibid, volume 2, pp 179-186
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