Matching, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Matching St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN stands on a green in the centre of the parish, close to Matching Hall. It comprises chancel with north organ chamber and vestry, south chapel, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower. The walls are of flint rubble with stone dressings; the porch is of brick and timber. A 12th-century chancel remained until 1873, but the nave was rebuilt, with three-bay aisles, early in the 13th century. The south aisle was widened in the later 14th century, and the central window and south doorway, partly restored, survive from that period. In the 15th century a plain square tower of three stages and the south porch, of which an original tiebeam remains, were added. The church was renovated in 1730 and again in 1770, when the roof was repaired and ceiled. The church was restored and enlarged in 1875 to designs by Sir Arthur Blomfield, at the cost of Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt. (fn. 248) The nave was extended one bay eastwards, the north aisle, chancel, and south porch were rebuilt, and the north organ chamber and vestry and the south chapel were added. The roof timbers were renewed, but three 14th-century corbels remain in the south aisle. Further roof repairs were carried out by Felsted School in 1907.

From: 'Parishes: Matching', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 196-206. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63853&amp;amp;strquery=matching Date accessed: 26 January 2011.

Matching is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the County of Essex, England.

A World War II airfield, RAF Matching, was located nearby. The Welsh poet and clergyman, John Morgan, was curate (1713 –1728) and then vicar (1728–1733 or 1734) here, and as a result gained the nickname "John Morgan Matchin".

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
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Church House, Matching Green, recorded in 1668, was said in 1768 to have been given for the repair of the church. In the 18th century it was the Cock alehouse, the rent of which was often applied to poor relief. ) It still belonged to the church in 1843. In 1981 it was a private house, Lone Pine Cottage.

From: 'Parishes: Matching', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 196-206. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63853&amp;amp;strquery=matching Date accessed: 26 January 2011.

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.

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