- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
NOTE: North Mymms is spelt differently from its sister village of South Mimms. The two spellings Mymms and Mimms appear to have been used interchangeably over the centuries, until Feb 20th 1939 when Hertfordshire County Council decreed in a council meeting that the spelling of North Mymms was be fixed as "Mymms".
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- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
North Mymms is a civil parish in the Dacorum District of Hertfordshire, England.
The park of North Mimms Place and Brookmans Park enclose large areas of the parish. Even the parish church (St. Mary's) stands in the park of North Mimms; in it is a chapel, the burialplace of the Coningsbys. There is a monument to Robert Knolles, also of North Mimms Place, dated 1458, and a brass to a priest. There is a large monument to Lord Somers, also Baron Evesham (d. 1716), and lord chancellor in the time of William III. The monument was erected by his sister, Lady Elizabeth Jekyll.
North Mymms Place
The Jacobean-style house of 1599 belonged to the Coningsby family. During the ownership of Thomas Coningsby (d. 1625), a Royalist leader in Hertfordshire, the house was plundered by the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. Later North Mimms Park belonged to the Hyde family. The house is famous for its collection of tapestries and for its panelling and fittings. An early 17th-century painted frieze of the "Nine Worthies" was rediscovered in the 20th century.
Brookmans Park
The park includes the former park of Gobions (demolished) once the property of Sir Thomas More. A lofty castellated gateway in the park is now called "The Folly". In 1956 North Mymms Parish Council acquired the land and the lake now known as Gobions Open Space. (There is an article in Wikipedia.)
The hamlet of Bell Bar and the village of Welham Green are also in the parish.
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 North Mimms (sic) ibid, volume 2, pp 251-261
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