Beaumont with Moze, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
A 19th century discripton by John Marius Wilson is:

BEAUMONT-CUM-MOZE, a parish in Tendring district, Essex; near the head of an inlet of the North sea, between the Naze and Harwich, 4½ miles S of Wrabness r. station, and 10 E of Colchester.

The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

From: Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870)

Beaumont with Moze is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Essex, created in 1678 from Beaumont Ancient Parish and Moze Ancient Parish. The parish includes Beaumont and Moze Cross.

Beaumont-cum-Moze is a village and civil parish which for local government purposes is part of Tendring district in Essex.

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 and include not only the Parish register and Bishop's Transcripts images but also the transcript of the olde parishes of Beaumont and Moze (prior to 1678) as well as census for 1821.

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
Tendring 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

Web sites
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