Hertfordshire Genealogy: Helpdesk

This month I received less questions than usual - undoubtedly because people spend less time pursuing their family history on the computer during bright summer evenings. A few could be answered quickly and did not justify a post here. Some contained inadequate information or were "off topic" - such as someone who wanted medical information relating to someone who was still living! Currently most such letters get a polite reply but I feel my priority must be to the specialist service I provide. I am beginning to think that if people are too lazy to read the instructions, or deliberately ignore them, it would be more productive to take the dog for a walk (especially after comments from my doctor) than to try and word a polite answer to an inappropriate question - when the questioner undoubtedly never had any intention of making a donation to charity.

Web Page	Notes
WARNING Ancestry	A query from Sharon reminded me to check to see whether the serious omissions in the Ancestry coverage of the 1841 census for Hertfordshire, had been corrected 6 months after the site was notified of the failure. The parishes are still missing and the parish of Sandon has been added to the omission list. The missing information is on the Findmypast web site.
KINGHAM, Nash Mills, Abbots Langley, early 19th century	A really exciting detective problem. Barbara had followed up earlier advice but had got stuck. It would appear that father and son had the same name, had wives with the same name, and had daughters with the same name born within a year of each other and baptised in the same church. It raises the question as to whether they were deliberately trying to confuse future generations of family historians.
GURNEY, "Arnham", circa 1700	Serena has provided additional evidence, from 1644, that "Arnham" was an alternative name for Aldenham. The page provides a good example of how useful the World Wide Web can be when checking obscure references.
ADVICE Rogues Gallery	Caroline contacted me about some unidentified (and probably unidentifiable) photographs - and I am treating this request as an excuse to remind everyone to ensure that all old family photographs, etc., are identified now so that future generations will know who they are.
Hill End Garden of Rest	Following interest in the disused burial grounds at Hill End Asylum there are plans to make the area more acceptable for relatives of those buried there in unmarked graves. I have sent a letter supporting the proposed changes.
Lucy Luck	The Mr and Mrs H--, who ran a beerhouse in St Albans in about 1851 have been provisionally identified as James and Mary Hitcham.
EPHGRAVE, Digswell, late 19th century	Joanne has provided a very useful update to the question first asked by Janice in 2003.
WARREN, Barley, Little Hormead & Great Hadham, 1850-1890	George provides some useful additional on Henry Edward Warren, who ran the Red Lion, Great Hadham at the time of the 1881 census.