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South Mimms & Potters Bar |
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South Mimms & Potters Bar |
Because the parishes of South Mimms and Potters Bar are newcomers to Hertfordshire (in 1965) they are not covered by reference works relating to the history or genealogy of the county. Under normal circumstances they fall outside the scope of this web site because I am unable to easily access the necessary Middlesex-oriented publications.
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Dr David Hughson's Description of London, published circa 1810 include a view of the church (wrongly labelled as North Mimms.
The Parish registers are held at HALS |
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St Giles Church and Almshouses South Mimms Posted 1908, No Publisher information |
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Parish Church, South Mimms à Posted 1906, No Publisher information |
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The boundary between Hertfordshire and Middlesex is complex in this area and I don't claim to have the full picture. However the following appear to be the key points. The historical parish is South Mimms, in Middlesex, in the Edmonton Hundred, with a small part in the Cashio Hundred of Hertfordshire. The parish church was St Giles. There were two main centres of population - South Mimms and Potters Bar. In 1835 Potters Bar became a separate parish (with its own registers), the parish church is St Mary Virgin & All Saints In 1904/5 the parish of Monken Hadley transferred to Hertfordshire and the part of the South Mimms parish that had been in Cashio Hundred transferred to Monken Hadley. In 1965 South Mimms and Potters Bar transferred from Middlesex to Hertfordshire, and Barnet (and Hadley) transferred to Middlesex (now the Borough of Barnet). |
High Street, Potters Bar |
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A book, The Story of Potters Bar and South Mimms, edited by Frederick Britain was published by the Potters Bar Urban District Council in 1966. |
Potters Bar Railway Station by Alpha |
Christchurch, Little Heath by Alpha |
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Click on the image for a larger version and see if you can recognise anyone (The original card was badly torn and the image has been "repaired") |
Potter Bar Trade Fete 1910 No publisher information Message on the back reads: Nelly says that you will soon recognise Mrs Pump (Barker) on this picture. Unfortunately the only Pump listed in the South East of England in the 1911 census was Maria Pump, an unmarried German-born nun? who was a superintendant at St Edward's School for Workhouse Children in Totteridge. An Albert Pumfrey was living in South Mims but his wife was Pheobe Susannah Brown. |
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| August 2010 | PC of church added | |
| July 2016 | Reformat with new pictures |
