Great Clacton, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes   Great Clacton

Parish History
Great Clacton or Clacton (Great), is a parish in Tendring district, Essex; on the coast, it is 9 miles SE of Wivenhoe railway station, and 13 miles SE of Colchester. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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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Census records
1841 Census returns for both Great and Little Clacton are missing.

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
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