Puttenham, Hertfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Puttenham, is a parish in the Berkhampstead district of Hertfordshire, it is on the Aylesbury canal, adjacent to Buckinghamshire, near the Clinton hills; and 1 1/2 miles SSW of Marston-Gate 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
Puttenham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies.

Census records
Census returns for 1841 are missing.

1524/5 Subsidy

 * 1524/5 Lay Subsidy (E179/120/122 roll 5 dorse) has been microfilmed:.

1626 Subsidy

 * 1626 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/329 membrane 2 dorse) has been microfilmed:.

1628 Subsidies

 * 1628 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/331 roll 2) has been microfilmed:.


 * 1628 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/333 roll 2) has been microfilmed:.


 * 1628 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/336 roll 3) has been microfilmed:.

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
Puttenham on GENUKI