Local Folk

History is made not just by the famous but also by 'ordinary' people. Can you add the history of a local person here?

101 and still a Cinemagoer
Birthday party at the Ritz Cinema, Potters Bar
5-Day Broxbourne U3A Trip to Durham and Surrounding Places of Interest
A gallery of pictures
50th wedding anniversary
September 2007
A Family Reunion
1964
A Selection of Burial Records 1600-1657
From Thomas Hassall's Parish Register of Amwell
Ann Wickham's Day Book
D/EX/126/F1
Bertha Groom
Woolmer Green
Family history of John Wittewronge
Rothamsted, 1664
Harry Benjamin Carrington
My great-grandfather
Jean Andrews of St Ippolyts
60 years of devoted service
John Robert Scales
Special Constable, St Albans
Memories of Bryan McCoy
Hatfield
Mr King of Brickendon
Memories of Roses and an Austin 7
Pedigree of the Meutys family
Gorhambury, 1624
The Moyle family of Aston
Horses, weddings and engineers
Thomas and Annie Currell
Hitchin folk walk to Wales
Wedding
a happy day
Wedding Charles Mole - Mary Reeves-Tyler
Bishop's Stortford 1919
Wills and Inventories for Hertford, 1660-1725
A true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and Chattells of John Briden of the p[ar]ish of St Johns in the county of Hertford Taylor, deceased
The Blair Family of Hertford (8)

People

A father and son massacred in the New Hebrides
A heroine who loved life (and more)
A SHOOTING IN WATTON - AT - STONE
Annie Swan, Suffragette
Audrey Collins OBE, Cricketer
Audrey Peattie, 1950's NHS Pathology Technician
Æthelflæd, Warrior Queen of the Mercians, 10th Century
Barbara Follett, Member of Parliament
Boudicca and her daughters, 30- 61 AD; the Terrorist – or freedom fighter?
Charles John Brewster Ray
Children of Hertfordshire
Christina of Markyate, Religious Visionary.
Cissi Pratt - Memories of St Ippolyts and Gosmore
Coleman connections
Cuffley Take Care
Dame Elizabeth Fuller, Education Pioneer.
Dame Ellen Terry, Actor
Dame Juliana Berners, Writer
Dame Margaret Tuke, Academic/Educator
Decorated Will
Delarivier Manley, Journalist
Dolly Shepherd, The Pioneering Edwardian Lady Parachutist
Dr Gladys Margaret Proudlock Dunbar
Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE
Dr Miall-Smith, The Welwyn Garden City Doctor
E. Margaret Burnside, Midwifery Inspector
Elisabeth Hudson, Disability Campaigner
Elizabeth Baker, Playwright and Suffragette.
Elizabeth Impey, Suffragette
Emily Davies, Suffragette & Founder of Britain’s First Women’s College.
Family search
First Jump from Dreaded Balloon
George Eliot, Author
George Hill, last person executed in Hertford
Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
Hatfield Mayor Lynne Sparks (2015-2016 Term)
Hertford County Constabulary
Herts Characters
Herts Hidden Heroines Project
Hilary Ratcliffe OBE, Gender Equality Campaigner
I was born at The Hoo on the Sixth of September, 1941!
In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 1)
In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 2)
Jane Hawking Jones, Educator & Author
Jane Wenham, The Accused Witch!
Judy Fryd CBE, Harpenden, campaigner & founder of Mencap.
Katherine Ferrers: The Wicked Lady - or was she?
Katherine Warington and Winifred Brenchley - Scientist
Kitty Hart-Moxon, Survivor
Lady Constance Lytton
Lady Constance Lytton, Suffragette
Lady Fanshawe - a Brave and Persistent Wife
Lavinia and William de Lautour
Lisa Buckingham OBE
Liz Hobbs MBE, Watersking Champion, Businesswoman
Looking for relatives of F/Lt Richard PICTON
Lorna Paulin, Hertfordshire County Librarian.
Louisa Puller, Suffragette
Lucy Shepherd, Explorer
Margaret & Annie Johnson - The First Hertfordshire Women Police Officers.
Margaret Murray, Egyptologist
Margaret Tyrwhitt Drake's Reference Book
Martine Wright, Paralympian & Campaigner
Mary Stout, Campaigner!
Mayor Lynne Sparks Speaks!
Micci Gorrod, Founder & Artistic Director of The Conscious Creative.
Mum's Story
Musical Memory Box
My early memories
My great-grandmother Annie Sears
P.C. Francis William Harmsworth ("Bill")
Peggy Hodges OBE, Aeronautical Engineer
Reba Younge, Educator, Anti-Racism Campaigner
Regina 4AD
ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
Syeda Momotaz Rahim, Community Activist
The Amazing Dolly Shepherd!
The Atagirls (Aviation Transport Authority) World War Two.
The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
The Timmins Family of Aldenham
Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
Victoria Farmer, Aviator
Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks 1895-1970
Wartime Nursing Memories
Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
African & Caribbean people in Herts before 1830
Armed Forces
Artists and Illustrators
Businesses
Doctors and Nurses
Ebenezer Howard
Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers
Famous / Infamous
George Paul: A Life in Hertford
Gypsies, Travellers and Showmen
Hertfordshire Centenarians
John Gravestock
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Local Folk
My Story 2019
Nobility
Novelists, playwrights and poets
Politicians
Radcliffe Family and Hitchin Priory
Royalty
Scientists and Inventors
Servants
Sportspeople
Ted Humphreys BEM

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