Norton Mandeville, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Norton-Mandeville, is a parish in Ongar district, Essex; near the river Roding, 2½ miles N E of Ongar railway station. Post-town, Ongar,is under Brentwood.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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Poor Law Unions
Ongar Poor Law Union, Essex

No parish records are known to survive except the registers. Details of poor relief, 1776-1821, which are given below, come from returns made to Parliament and may not always be very accurate. In 1776 a total of £70 was said to have been spent on poor relief. The average for 1783-5 was £36. The cost of relief was given as £140 for 1800-1, and for 1816-17. Between those years it fluctuated, averaging slightly over £100 a year. Only once, in 1815-16, was it higher (£150) than in 1800-1. In 1817-18 it was given as £130, in 1819-20 as £116 and in 1820-1 as £100. There was a cottage in three tenements in Norton Mandeville which was used as a poor house. It was sold by the Ongar Union in 1837.

From: 'Norton Mandeville: Poor relief', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956), pp. 154. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15623&amp;amp;strquery=norton mandeville Date accessed: 06 February 2011.

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.

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