Norton, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
Norton, is a parish with a village, in the district of Hitchen, county of Hertford; it is adjacent to Bedfordshire and 1 mile WNW of Baldock railway station.

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:

Census records
1841-1911 census records with indexes and images are available through and at www.familysearch.org, www.findmypast.co.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk, www.thegenealogist.co.uk.

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
Norton on GENUKI