Lilley, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Parishes

Guide to Lilley, Hertfordshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Lilley, or Lindley, a village and a parish in Hitchin district, Hertfordshire. The village is near the forder of Bedfordshire, and 4 miles N NE of Luton railway station, it is 5 miles WSW of Hitchin. It contains the hamlet of Mangrove. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

LILLEY (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Hitchin, hundred of Hitchin and Pirton, county of Hertford, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Luton, The Wesleyans have a place of worship.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Hertfordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Lilley on GENUKI