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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Hertfordshire => Topic started by: Half Pint on Monday 26 November 12 17:41 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Can sks please help me with the registration district that would cover Dancers Hill in 1875.
I have looked in all the usual places to no avail
Regards
Half Pint
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It seems to have been in Barnet in 1851. Have you checked from relevant census entries what district it was registered under in 1871/1881?
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Answering my own question: it was still in Barnet in 1881 - see e.g. RG11 piece 1368 folio 110 page 29.
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Also in Barnet in 1871: e.g. RG10 piece 1331 folio 103 page 5.
So I think Barnet is your answer.
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Hi
No wonder I couldn't find it
Ancestry have classed Barnet as in Middlesex aaarrrggghhh
Thank you AVM
Regards
Half Pint
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South Mimms is north of Dancer's Hill and was also in Barnet.
BUT it was in Middlesex! ;D
Not sure where the county boundary was?
South Mimms Urban was a parish in Hertfordshire from 1894 until 1965.
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The South Mimms subdistrict which included Dancers Hill was in Middlesex 1852-1889; see:
www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/barnet.html
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The Herts/Middx boundary has certainly moved about in this area -- for example, Potters Bar was in Middlesex when I was very young but shifted to Hertfordshire when I was in junior school -- so 1965?? (Potters Bar being our post town, I well remember letters having to be addressed very awkwardly as "Cuffley (Herts), Potters Bar, Middx"!).
From dim and distant memory, I have an impression of Barnet being in Middlesex as well, so may well have been involved in the same bit of reorganisation.