- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Stanstead Abbots (spelled Stanstead Abbotts by Wikipedia) is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire District of Hertfordshire, England. At the 2001 UK census the parish had a population of 1,983. It lies on the county boundary with Essex, and is situated approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) SSE of Ware, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) SE of Hertford, 3 miles (4.8 km) NNE of Hoddesdon and 5 miles (8.0 km) W of Harlow. The village is separated from the village of Stanstead St. Margarets by the River Lea.
The manor of Stanstead Abbots was granted to Anne Boleyn and remained with the crown after her execution. In 1559 Queen Elizabeth granted it to Edward Baeshe (1507?-1587) and it remained in the Bashe family for several generations.
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 Braughing: Introduction and map as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 3, pp 366-373
- The parish of Stanstead Abbots ibid, volume 3, pp 194-199
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