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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: [HRT] ANOTHER QUESTION FOR YOU
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:31:36 -0000
In-Reply-To: <000d01c75f5b$a58b2210$861bfea9@Sheila>


> I have photocopies of the original Parish pages for St. Peter's, St,
> Alban's for Hannah Wright's marriage to Daniel Death in 1830 and the
> subsequentbirths of 3 daughters - also photocopies, each with8 entries
> per sheet for the baptisms. All state
>
> Baptisms or Marriage solemnized in the Parish of St. Peters, St.
> Albans in the County of Hertford in the Year ....
>
> Do you think the person who typed "Penzance" meant to type "St.
> Peter's"? Would that be a subdistrict?>

St Peter's is a parish within the St Albans registration district. There is a
St Peter's Church and St Peter's Street, which is the main street right in
the very centre of St Albans.

Here's how to discover what sub-districts make up the RD. Call up
Hannah's entry in the death indexes at FreeBMD and click on the
underlined name, St Albans. This opens a screen which tells you it's in
Hertfordshire and another underlined link, "here", invites you to click on it
for further information. This gives you a complete breakdown from the
GENUKI pages of the St Albans RD, with a list of the sub-districts and all
the townships and civil parishes within it.

The sub-districts are Harpenden; St Albans; St Albans First; and St
Albans Second. The townships and parishes include St Peter, St Peter
Rural and St Peter Urban. However, from the 1881 census it looks as if
the workhouse was actually in the parish of St Michael.

I have no idea what the person who typed the entry was thinking!
Perhaps they'd just done a certificate for Penzance moments before.

--
Roy Stockdill
Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:
www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about."
OSCAR WILDE



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