St Albans St Peter, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England   Hertfordshire   Hertfordshire Parishes

Parish History
PETER (St.), ALBAN'S (ST.) locally in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's. According to Matthew Paris, the Alban's (St.) owes its origin to Ulsinus, or Ulsig, the sixth abbot, who, about the year 950, built a church on each of the three principal roads leading from the monastery, dedicated respectively to St. Stephen, St. Michael, and St. Peter. The manufacture of straw-plat, is the chief occupation of the lower class of inhabitants: a silk-mill, occupying the site of the abbeymill, and in a mill for spinning cotton-wicks for candles, formerly applied to the cutting and polishing of diamonds. The powers of the county debt-court of St. Alban's, established in 1847, extend over the registration-district of St. Alban's, and the greater part of the districts of Hatfield and Welwyn, and Hemel-Hempstead.The town comprises the parish of St. Alban, or the Abbey parish, and parts of the parishes of St. Michael and St. Peter. The living of St. Peter's is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £9. 0. 10.; net income, £308; patron, the Bishop of Ely.

Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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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.

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Web sites
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