Billericay, Essex Genealogy

Guide to Billericay, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BILLERICAY, is a market-town and a chapelry district, and the head of a union, in the parish of Great Burstead, the hundred of Barstable, and S division of Essex, it is 9½ miles SSW from Chelmsford. The name, was anciently written Beleuca. The town is pleasantly situated on the road from London to Southend. The Eastern Counties railway passes a few miles to the north-west. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, was probably erected in the 14th century. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, and Independents.

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
Billericay parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Mary Magadalen See also Christ Church, Holy Redeemer, St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay Congregational Church and South Green Congregational Church.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Methodist
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)

Poor Law Unions

 * Billericay 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Billericay on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)