Essex Church Records

Online Records

 * 1530-1906 England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 at Ancestry - index ($)
 * 1538-1850 England England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 at Findmypast - index (free collection)
 * 1538-1997 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1538-1988 England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1988 at Ancestry - index ($)
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1538-1900 England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1900 at MyHeritage - index ($)

Archives
Essex Record Office Wharf Road Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6YT UK Telephone: 03330 132 500 Email: [mailto:ero.enquiry@essex.gov.uk ero.enquiry@essex.gov.uk] Website Essex Archives Online Research services
 * Our holdings, which include parish registers, diaries, letters, court records, wartime records, manorial records and school records, take up nearly 8 miles of shelving, making us one of the largest county archives in England.


 * Parish registers
 * The Essex Record Office (ERO) holds registers from over 400 parishes, covering the present county of Essex, including Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock, and also those parts of north-east London that used to be in Essex. Most parishes have registers from the 17th or 18th century onwards, but some go back to 1538.
 * Essex Archives Online includes images of all registers of baptisms, marriages and burials that have been deposited either in the ERO or with our partners at Waltham Forest Archives. It excludes only baptism registers less than 16 years old and marriage registers from after 1957.