Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
Rickmansworth, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in the Watford district of Hertfordshire; it was originally called Richmeresweorth. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels in Rickmansworth; the baptist chapels are at Mill-End and Chorley-Wood. The subdistrict also contains the parish of Sarratt.

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:

Mill End by Rickmansworth registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Croxley Green 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
Rickmansworth on GENUKI