Vange, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Vange All Saints is an Ancient Parish in Essex.

The earliest parts of All Saints Church date from the late 12th century, with alterations from subsequent centuries. The last were in 1837. It is built of stone, flint and other masonry, with bands of brickwork alternating with tufa and rubble walling. A bellcote that was refashioned in 1816 tops it off.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

VANGE (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Billericay, hundred of Barstable, S. division of Essex, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Horndon-on-the-Hill; containing 169 inhabitants. This parish is bounded on the south by a creek of the river Thames, and comprehends a low tract of marshy land called Bower's Marsh, and a portion of Canvey Island. It comprises by computation 1451a. 28p., whereof 895 acres are arable, 484 meadow, 6½ reed land, 3 in homesteads, and 60 glebe. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £14, and in the gift of Sir C. Smith, Bart.: the tithes have been commuted for £310. The church, a small ancient edifice, has been lately repaired, and enlarged by the erection of a gallery.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 428-429. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51366&amp;amp;strquery=vange Date accessed: 03 February 2011.

Vange is a former village now subsumed within the urban area of the Basildon District of Essex. As it is much smaller than Basildon, Laindon and Pitsea, it does not have its own town centre or railway station. The London Road (B1464) is the main road through Vange and used to be part of the A13 till it was bypassed in the 1970s.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Billericay Poor Law Union, Essex

Probate records
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