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People


A county is the people who live in it, and their memories build its identity. These are some of the people who’ve lived in Hertfordshire through the ages – rich and poor, internationally famous or unknown outside family and community.

  • Mary Stout, Campaigner!
    Mary Stout, Campaigner!
    Mary Stout: Campaigner and Outsider who took on the Legal Establishment of her day.
  • Maternity ww2
    Maternity ww2
    The birth certificate my wife has states that she was born in Hitchin on 27 dec. 1941 . The certificate state ...
  • Mayor Lynne Sparks Speaks!
    Mayor Lynne Sparks Speaks!
    "It’s such a fantastic honour to be part of the Herts Hidden Heroines project." Read More Here!
  • Micci Gorrod, Founder & Artistic Director of The Conscious Creative.
    Micci Gorrod, Founder & Artistic Director of The Conscious Creative.
    Micci Gorrod, Artistic Director, nominated as a modern-day Herts Heroine.
  • Mum's Story
    Mum's Story
    Growing up in pre-war Hertford
  • Musical Memory Box
    Musical Memory Box
    East Herts Music and Reminiscence Project
  • My early memories
    My early memories
    Running away!
  • My great-grandmother Annie Sears
    My great-grandmother Annie Sears
    I found your site while searching for information on my great-grandmother Annie Sears. On her death notice it says she ...
  • P.C. Francis William Harmsworth ("Bill")
    P.C. Francis William Harmsworth ("Bill")
    Broxbourne and Wormley
  • Peggy Hodges OBE, Aeronautical Engineer
    Peggy Hodges OBE, Aeronautical Engineer
    Peggy Hodges, Aeronautical Engineer & Soroptimist.
  • Reba Younge, Educator, Anti-Racism Campaigner
    Reba Younge, Educator, Anti-Racism Campaigner
    Read About Stevenage's: Reba Younge, Educator & Anti-Racism Campaigner.
  • Regina 4AD
    Regina 4AD
    Regina: Freed Slave & Wife of Barates The Merchant , In Roman Britain.
  • Researching Gorham Ancestry in England
    Researching Gorham Ancestry in England
    The ancestry of the “Gorham” surname in England began with a Goeffrey De Gorham, from France c 1130, to join ...
  • ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
    ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
    Hertfordshire's own Pierrepoint
  • Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
    Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
    Was Ruth Osborne The "Tring Witch" or A Woman, Wrongly Accused?
  • Syeda Momotaz Rahim, Community Activist
    Syeda Momotaz Rahim, Community Activist
    Meet: Syeda Momotaz Rahim community activist and the First British Bangladeshi female Councillor in St Albans.
  • The Amazing Dolly Shepherd!
    The Amazing Dolly Shepherd!
    My Hertfordshire Hidden Heroine: Dare Devil & Pioneer Edwardian Lady Parachutist, Miss Dolly Shepherd.
  • The ATA Girls (Air Transport Auxiliary) World War Two
    The ATA Girls (Air Transport Auxiliary) World War Two
    Read About The Women Who Flew Spitfires In World War 2
  • The Edwardian Parachute Queen
    The Edwardian Parachute Queen
    "You ask why?    Well why not!   That was my motto Why not! I was always a bit of a tomboy - a thrill seeker. When I was a wee girl I decided to jump off the top of the roof with just an umbrella to break my fall!"
  • The Mysterious Condition of Rev. Henry Etough
    The Mysterious Condition of Rev. Henry Etough
    Rev. Henry Etough (1688 – 1757) Rev. Henry Etough was Rector at Therfield from 1734 and he was buried there after ...
  • The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
    The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
    It is always worth looking at how attitudes have evolved and the HALS archives are a rich resource in documentary ...
  • The Timmins Family of Aldenham
    The Timmins Family of Aldenham
    How much have lives changed in the century that divides us and the contemporaries of Jane Austen?  In a small ...
  • Thomas Kingham, 1854-1919, paternity of Whitehouse children, DNA
    Thomas Kingham, 1854-1919, paternity of Whitehouse children, DNA
  • Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
    Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
    Read About: Ursula Bloom, Silent Films Music Maker, Journalist & Author.
  • African & Caribbean people in Herts before 1830

    African & Caribbean people in Herts before 1830 (8)

    Hidden Histories
  • Armed Forces

    Armed Forces (29)

    Hertfordshire's military experience
  • Artists and Illustrators

    Artists and Illustrators (16)

    Hertfordshire's artistic legacy
  • Businesses

    Businesses (30)

    Hertfordshire's commercial history
  • Doctors and Nurses

    Doctors and Nurses (4)

    Hertfordshire's health workers
  • Ebenezer Howard

    Ebenezer Howard (4)

    Founder of the Garden City Movement
  • Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers

    Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers (5)

    From his Memoirs, 1960
  • Famous / Infamous

    Famous / Infamous (21)

    Celebrities of Hertfordshire
  • George Paul: A Life in Hertford

    George Paul: A Life in Hertford (8)

    From the 1930s to the 1960s
  • Gypsies, Travellers and Showmen

    Gypsies, Travellers and Showmen (9)

    Hertfordshire's travelling people
  • Hertfordshire Centenarians

    Hertfordshire Centenarians (8)

    Hitting a hundred in Hertfordshire
  • John Gravestock

    John Gravestock (3)

    Hertfordshire to Gallipoli
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer

    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (41)

    Hertfordshire's LGBTQ+ community
  • Local Folk

    Local Folk (32)

    The people of Hertfordshire
  • My Story

    My Story (97)

    Be part of Hertfordshire's story
  • Nobility

    Nobility (47)

    Hertfordshire's aristocracy
  • Novelists, playwrights and poets

    Novelists, playwrights and poets (10)

    Literary figures of Hertfordshire
  • Politicians

    Politicians (11)

    Political life in Hertfordshire
  • Radcliffe Family and Hitchin Priory

    Radcliffe Family and Hitchin Priory (6)

    A Hertfordshire dynasty
  • Royalty

    Royalty (18)

    Hertfordshire's connections with the royal family
  • Scientists and Inventors

    Scientists and Inventors (21)

    Hertfordshire's contributions to science
  • Servants

    Servants (15)

    Below stairs in Hertfordshire
  • Sportspeople

    Sportspeople (12)

    Hertfordshire's contributions to sport
  • Ted Humphreys BEM

    Ted Humphreys BEM (2)

    A Hertfordshire life
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