Rochford, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Rochford, is a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Essex. The town is on the River Roche or Bromhill, an affluent of the River Crouch, 3½ miles N by W of Southend railway station and 16½ miles SE of Chelmsford. It has a post-office under Chelmsford. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans 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
Rochford 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

See also Rochford Hospital, Rochford Wesleyan Methodist Church, Rochford Congregational Church and Rocheway Evangelical Church

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Protestant Dissenters
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions

 * Rochford Poor Law Union, Essex

Microfilm copy of original at the Essex Record Office, Colchester. Churchwardens and overseers records, 1658-1913 Essex Record Office, Colchester, reference: D/P129/5/1-3, D/P129/8-10, D/P129/11/1-3, 12/1-6, 13/1A-5, 14/1-3, 15/1-4, 16/1-6, 17/1-9, 18/1-14, D/P129/21, 25/1, 28/1-5.


 * Churchwardens accounts, 1742-1913; Vestry records, 1785-1824; Constable records, 1742, 1774, 1829; Overseers rates, 1797, 1804, 1823; Overseers accounts, 1773-1774, 1800-1802 FHL BRITISH Film 1471655 Items 15-26
 * Overseers accounts, 1762-1809 FHL BRITISH Film 1471878
 * Overseers accounts, 1808-1869; Overseers settlements, 1698-1830 FHL BRITISH Film 1471879
 * Overseers settlements, 1808-1830; Apprenticeships, 1658-1659, 1709-1711, 1728-1812, 1823-1829; Bastardy records, 1712-1718, 1732, 1754-1756, 1767-1771, 1783-1795, 1809-1829; Settlements, 1704, 1756, 1791-1796, 1810, 1823-1829; Militia records, 1778, 1795-1809; Miscellaneous, 1773-1830; Surveyors accounts, 1782-1794; Charities, 1777; Miscellaneous, 1742, 1796-1805, 1820, 1898 FHL BRITISH Film 1471731 Items 1-44

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
Rochford on GENUKI

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