Coggeshall, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes   Coggeshall, Essex



Parish History
COGGESHALL, GREAT (St. Peter), is a market town and parish, in the union of Witham, and in the Witham division of the hundred of Lexden, it is in the N. division of Essex, 3 miles (N.) from Kelvedon. Coggeshall was comprised of the parishes of Great and Little Coggeshall, the two parishes have been consolidated. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Poor Law Unions
Witham Poor Law Union, Essex

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain