Dancers Hill

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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

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[avm228]

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?

[avm228]

Answering my own question: it was still in Barnet in 1881 - see e.g. RG11 piece 1368 folio 110 page 29.

[avm228]

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

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[KGarrad]

South Mimms is north of Dancer's Hill and was also in Barnet.

BUT it was in Middlesex!

Not sure where the county boundary was?


South Mimms Urban was a parish in Hertfordshire from 1894 until 1965.

[avm228]

The South Mimms subdistrict which included Dancers Hill was in Middlesex 1852-1889; see:

www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/barnet.html

[mgf]

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.