Stanstead St Margaret, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England   Hertfordshire   Hertfordshire Parishes

Parish History
STANSTEAD ST. MARGARET'S, a parish, in the union of Ware, hundred and county of Hertford, 1½ mile (N. by E.) from Hoddesdon; containing 92 inhabitants. The parish is situated between the New River and the Lea. A college, or chantry, for a master and four secular priests, was founded at Stanstead in 1315, by Sir William de Goldington, Knt., in consequence of the impoverishment of the tithes and rights of the church; but it was dissolved in 1431, from neglect, and misapplication of its revenue. Here is a station of the Hertford branch of the railway from London to Cambridge. The living is a donative curacy; net income, £6; patron, Mrs. C. Pratt. The tithes have been commuted for £87. 3. 8.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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