Markshall, Essex Genealogy

England Essex   Essex Parishes

Parish History
Markshall St Margaret is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

The ruined church and graveyard are all that remain of the church the site of which lies in the Markshall Country Park. A small medieval church on this site was replaced in the mid-C18th by a hexagonal building, the form of which can still be seen in the white bricks within the footings. In the mid-C19th the church was extensively altered and extended and this work included an enlarged chancel and nave. When the parishes of Marks Hall and Coggeshall were amalgamated in the 1920s, the church became redundant and was demolished in 1933.

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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Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office parish registers, bishop's transcripts, monumental inscriptions

Census records
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Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.

http://www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Markshall for images of the ruined church