This section contains scanned documents and links that are useful for potential research purposes rather than necessarily being an interesting read in themselves. It includes a link to the full Hempstead catalogue held at Essex Record Office, although inspecting much of this material requires a personal visit.
Essex Records Office – click this link and search for Hempstead
Census Returns for Hempstead 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921
The 1931 census records were destroyed by fire and no census was undertaken in 1941 because of wartime restrictions, but the 1939 register (which was used to produce identity cards and ration books) gives broadly similar information
Miscellaneous Parish Magazines 1925 – 1944
Kelly’s Directory 1855 1874 1882 1894 1902 1914 1922 1933 1937
Domesday Book entry for Hempstead
Thomas Wright: The History and Topography of the County of Essex
Comments on Wright’s Topography by Percy Taylor of Hempstead Hall
Rev. P Morant: Histories and Antiquities of the County of Essex, 1768
Walter Crane: An Artist’s Reminiscences
Wykeham Chancellor: Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, 1913
Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (England) 1916
Church of England Magazine 2 July 1864
Herts & Essex Observer, 10 December 1904
Civil Parish of Hempstead (records of notable buildings)
Ben Rudder: Keyhole excavation of Mill Field, Hempstead, 1999
A Clerical Artist in Wood, Royal Magazine, 1900
Sale Particulars – the Hempstead Estate, 1918
Buyers and prices achieved at the auction
Sale Particulars – Flour and Grist Mill, 1906
Survey of the Harvey lands, 1770