- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Gilston is a village in the East Hertfordshire District of Hertfordshire, England. It is located a little over one mile north of the town of Harlow in the neighbouring county of Essex. Together with the nearby hamlet of Eastwick, it forms the post-1974 civil parish of Eastwick and Gilston. At the 2001 Census, the population of this parish was 180.
The name derives from "Gedel" or "Gydel", an Old English personal name, and "tun", meaning farm or settlement.
The Parish Church of St Mary dates from the 13th century, and is Grade I listed.
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 289-291
- The parish of Gilston ibid, volume 3, pp 319-323
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