Southend St John the Baptist, Essex Genealogy

Guide to Southend St John the Baptist, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SOUTHEND, is a hamlet, in the parish of Prittlewell, the union and hundred of Rochford, and S. division of Essex, it is 1¾ mile (S. S. E.) from the village of Prittlewell. Southend is situated at the mouth of the Thames, directly opposite the river Medway. There is a place of worship for 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.

Non-Conformist Churches
Independent/Congregational

Poor Law Unions
Rochford 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
Prittlewell on GENUKI

Southend-on-Sea on GENUKI

Southend St John the Baptist on GENUKI

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