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Indexed Newspapers

A large proportion of newspaper holdings from 1970 to 2009 have been indexed on Hertfordshire Names Online. The backlog of newspapers from 1816-1969 is slowly being indexed. So far the following have been completed:

All miscellaneous newspapers 1772-1808
Annual Register: 1758-1808
County Chronicle Hertfordshire extracts only: 1816, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1829
County Press: Jul-Dec 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1854
Hertford & Ware Chronicle: 1893
Hertford Record: 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890
Hertfordshire Mercury: 1827, 1828, 1830, 1847, 1851, 1888, 1902
Hertfordshire News Dec 1919 - Apr 1922 (full run)
Herts Advertiser: 1870, 1890, 1891, 1911
Illustrated London News: (Hertfordshire extracts only) 1852, 1853, 1855, 1856, 1858, Jul-Dec 1861, 1862, Jan-Jun 1878
Watford Leader 1896, 1897

The type of information indexed from the 19th century newspapers includes:

• petty sessions
• quarter sessions
• assizes
• commitments to gaol
• bankruptcies
• marriage notices
• obituaries
• coroners' inquests
• funerals
• wills
• accidents
• sales by auction of houses, farms and pubs
• elections
• fires
• restoration and destruction of buildings

and many other events and stories of Hertfordshire people and places