Genealogy in Hertfordshire

Old Hertfordshire News

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1817 Dec 10th Times (County Chronicle) A Stage Coach accident (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1818 Nov 9th Times Attempted Robbery at Berkhamsted
1823 Nov 25th Times (County Chronicle) Exhumation of a dead body. See also Resurrectionists at Work (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1827 April 7th Herts Mercury The Sale of Osterhills, St Albans
1827 September 15th Herts Mercury A Fist Fight at Wigginton - resulting in a death
1828 August 30th Herts Mercury An Inquest at St Albans - following excessive drinking
1828 August 30th Herts Mercury A Grand Cricket Match at St Albans
1829 March 28th Bucks Gazette Attempt at Highway Robbery (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1834 June Hertford and Ware Patriot Hertford Justice
1835 February Hertford and Ware Patriot The Ware Steeple Chase
1841 April 4th Local Occurrences Hertfordshire to have rural policemen
1842 January 4th Local Occurrences Fire at Tring Silk Mill
1842 December 8th Local Occurrences Fatal train accident at Northchurch
1843 January 21st Aylesbury News Auction of Bakehouse and Chapel at Long Marston
1843 June 10th Pictorial Times The Oddfellows Festival at Berkhamstead [No further details available]
1853 May 14th Illustrated London News Straw plaiting near St Albans (print)
1853 October 1st Buckinghamshire Herald The inquest of John Bagnall at Tring.
1855 July 28th Illustrated London News Watford Horticultural and Floricultural Show
1855 July 28th Illustrated London News New Laboratory for J B Lawes at Rothamsted, Harpenden
1858 December 4th Herts Advertiser Infringement of the Beer Act - The Cricketers, St Albans
1859 Jan 15th Herts Advertiser Fence needs repairing (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1859 Feb 26th Herts Advertiser Old Tyttenhager News - Ferreting Rabbits
1860 March 2nd Times Incendiarism at Sawbridgeworth - 4 youths are sentences for firing a stack of straw
1860 March 31st Herts Advertiser Death in Police Cells, St Albans, 1860
1860 July 21st Herts Advertiser Drunk & Disorderly, St Albans, 1860
1860 Dec 13th Herts Advertiser Poaching Rabbits at Sandridge - Cramphorn involved
1861 Nov 2nd Herts Advertiser Poor state of the road (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1862 June 16th Herts Advertiser Death of William Bennett (St Albans Brickmaker)
1862 July 5th Herts Advertiser William PAUL assaults ARCHER at Sandridge
1862 July 5th Herts Advertiser VIDLER assaults Mrs WALKER at Wheathampstead
1862 July 5th Herts Advertiser

HART/IVORY illegitimacy at St Albans

1862 July 5th Herts Advertiser Some County Court Cases
1862 July 5th Herts Advertiser Another Awfully Sudden Death at St Albans
1862 August 2nd/9th Herts Advertiser St Albans Perserverance Cricket Club - in ELBOURN, St Albans, late 19th century
1862 August 23rd Herts Advertiser  School Cricket in St Albans
1864 March 19th  Herts Advertiser Stealing Turnip Tops in St Peters, St Albans - Stratton and Cramphorn involved
1864 April 16th Herts Advertiser The Omnibus to Harpenden (quoted in The Road through Harpenden) & other adverts
1865 March 25th Herts Advertiser Throwing Stones in Fishpool Street, St Albans
1865 March 25th Herts Advertiser Old Tyttenhager News - Assault - Bates on Falconer
1865 Oct 21st Herts Advertiser Old Tyttenhager News - Brick field to let
1865 Nov 4th Herts Advertiser The Omnibus to Harpenden is cancelled (quoted in The Road through Harpenden
1866 Jan 20th Herts Advertiser In search of conies - ELBOURN, St Albans, late 19th century
1866 Feb 24th Herts Advertiser Old Tyttenhager News - Bricks for the new goal
1866 June 9th Herts Advertiser Some advertisements - James Maddox with pony and phaeton for hire; Arnold Adams, carrier; W & G Messenger, sack manufacturer; Batford Mill, Harpenden for let.
1866 Oct 10th Herts Advertiser Trespass in search of Conies in St Michaels, St Albans
1866 Oct 10th Herts Advertiser Stray Pigs at Sandridge - William Paul in trouble
1866 November 17th Herts Advertiser Trespass in search of Conies in St Michaels, St Albans in 1866
1866 Dec 8th Herts Advertiser G F Arnold v. Charnock - Dispute over Bricks
1866 Dec 15th Herts Advertiser Trespassing in search of rabbits at Sandridge
1867 Feb 23rd Herts Advertiser The Waterworks, Baths, and Washhouses at Hemel Hempstead - opened 1867
1868 February 8th Herts Advertiser Assault in Wood
1868 May 30th Herts Advertiser Road traffic accident - horse and cart (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1869 Feb 20th Herts Advertiser Assault on Hammonds Farm. Sandridge
1869 April 3rd Herts Advertiser Wheeler vs Barford - Farm labourer takes farmer to court!
1869 November 4th Herts Advertiser Mistaken Identity - Thomas Wheeler not guilty of poaching.
1869 Oct 2nd Herts Advertiser Asleep in charge of horse and cart (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1870 June 25th Herts Advertiser Bourne v Barford - Dispute over Bricks
1870 Sept 24th Herts Advertiser Sale of the Contents of Digswell House
1871 April 1st Herts Advertiser

News from the Herts Advertiser - selected items

1871 April 8th Herts Advertiser County Court Cases
1871 Sept 23 Herts Advertiser Charge of Stealing a Copper Pump from a Brickfield.
1872 June 8th Herts Advertiser Trade Union Meeting on Nomansland Common
1872 August 8th Herts Advertiser Theft of Money - Charles Butcher steals from his father - Miskin's Brickworks
1873 April 19th Herts Advertiser Various adverts relating to agricultural labourers strike.
1873 June 7th Herts Mercury Hertfordshire Chamber of Agriculture - meeting discussing Sandridge Strike
1873 Sept 9th Herts Advertiser Theft of Potatoes at St Albans - An incident involving the Stratton family 
1873 Nov 15th Herts Advertiser Reference to Gift Ploughing in HOLINSHEAD, St Albans area, 19th century
1873 Dec 20th Herts Advertiser The St Albans Highway Board (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1874 September Royston Crow Many excerpts - see Royston Crow page
1876 Oct 28th Herts Advertiser Joseph Arch (leading trades unionist) visits Hertfordshire
1880 June 12th Herts Advertiser Housebreaking at Heath Farm, Bernards Heath
1880 August 21st Herts Advertiser Fire at Beech Hyde, Sandridge
1880 August 28th Herts Advertiser

Fearful Tragedy at Marshall's Wick

1882 March 4th Herts Advertiser Extract on the new Baptist Tabernacle in WATTS, St Albans, 1865-1880s
1882 April 1st Herts Advertiser Classified Advertisements - Situations Wanted & Vacant - For Sale, Wanted for Purchase  
1882 November 18th Herts Advertiser Fraudulently dealing in Straw Plait, St Albans in 1882
1883 September 1st Herts Advertiser Stevenage Petty Sessions - a collection of minor Court Cases
1884 January 1884 Herts Advertiser The St Albans Pub song
1886 April 3rd ... Herts Advertiser Obituary of James Richardson, Cricketer of St Albans
1886 April 12th Herts Advertiser Farmers Club meeting in HOLINSHEAD, St Albans area, 19th century
1888 January 21st Herts Advertiser Excelsior Theatre to visit St Albans
1888 March 31st Herts Advertiser St Albans Town Clerk struck off
1889 January 5th Herts Advertiser Conversazionne at the St Albans School of Music
1889 February 16th Herts Advertiser The Staghounds at Cuckman's - 1889
1889 Nov 30th Herts Advertiser Stealing Lead Piping - from Mr Dickson's brick pit, St Albans
1890 April 19th ... Herts Advertiser The Death of Leonard Margrave on Bernards Heath - Drowned in a clay pit 
1890 March 8th Buckinghamshire Advertiser Sample of assorted items relating to Rickmansworth and Watford to illustrate the limited Hertfordshire coverage.
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette A wide selection of local news items from a typical week
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette Divisional Sessions - The Board of Magistrates, two minor cases and links to other cases
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette An Accident in Ashridge Park - Mr Allison of Little Gaddesden breaks his leg again
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette

Open after hours at Frithsden - Late night drinking in a rural pub

1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette John Dickinson's Paper Mills at Apsley - Two news stories mentioning Apsley Mills
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette The Election of Boxmoor Trustees - The Boxmoor Trust owns a significant amount of land and certain local people have rights to graze their animals there.
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette A Cricket Match at Hemel Hempstead.
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette The Berkhamsted Girls High School holds a Fair
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette

Highways Board - Details of a meeting of the committee responsible for the roads.

1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette The West Herts Infirmary - A report of the number of patients - A shortage of beds - plus details of the history of the Infirmary.
1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette

Theft of String at Northchurch

1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette

The Old Berkeley Hunt at Shendish - Fox hunting

1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette

Stealing Money at Tring

1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette

Stealing Silk Stockings at Tring

1890 June 28th Hemel Gazette

The Hemel Hempstead Wool Fair - and who was buying or selling wool

1890 August 2nd Herts Advertiser A Row at the Cricketers - Trouble in a St Albans Public House
1890 Horse & Hounds

The Bever Pack of Harriers - a pack run by Jacob Reynolds

1891 April 25th Herts Advertiser Old Boys' Dinner at St Albans in 1891
1891 May 16th Herts Advertiser Did Walter Peters eat my Great Grandfather's turkey?
1891 May 16th Herts Advertiser

Sale of Fat and Store Stock at St Albans

1891 June 21st Herts Advertiser An Accident with a Trap (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1892 June 4th Herts Advertiser The Sale of Oster Hills, St Albans in 1892
1893 April 1st Herts Advertiser

Easter Stock Sale at Hatfield

1893 August Herts Illustrated Review The Panshanger Oak
1894 March 3rd Herts Advertiser Sale of Hay at the Red Lion, Hatfield
1894 March 31st Herts Advertiser Card Playing in St Peter's Churchyard - Gambling in St Albans.
1895 January ?? Watford Observer New Roads for Callow Land
1895 Sept 14th Penny Illustrated Paper A Rothschild Equipage - A Zebra four-in-hand at the Tring Agricultural Show
1896 July 1st Herts Advertiser The Cox double wedding in HOLINSHEAD, St Albans area, 19th century
1896 Nov 4th St Albans Clock Tower Observations on Truman Press's Publications
1900 Jan 13th Herts Advertiser How to Shoot Straight at St Albans
1905 June 10th Herts Advertiser March of Unemployed Men, 1905 (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1905 August 19th Herts Advertiser An Accident on the Harpenden Road (quoted in The Road through Harpenden)
1906 July 23rd [Elsden] The Prince of Wales visit to Hertford
1907 July 18th [Downer] The Lord Mayor's visit to St Albans Pageant.
1907 July [Downer] A Scene in George Street, St Albans during Pageant Week.
1908 March 15th [Downer] The Disastrous Fire at Hazelwood, Abbots Langley.
1911 April 1st Herts Advertiser Aldenham Harriers hunt from Heath Farm, Bernards Heath
1914 May 16th Hemel Gazette Tar Damage to Watercress Beds at Hemel Hempstead
1914 July 25th Hemel Gazette Theft of Sweets - Boys to be thrashed
1914 Sept 12th Herts Advertiser Garage Fire at St Albans
1915 Jan 9th Hemel Gazette Joseph Kimich, Jeweller, Advert
1916 May 20th Herts Advertiser Milkmen called up from Heath Farm, Bernards Heath, St Albans
1916 June 10th Herts Advertiser Milkmen called up from Heath Farm, Bernards Heath, St Albans - unsuccessful appeal

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