Ramsey, Essex Genealogy

England Essex  Essex Parishes  Ramsey

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

Parish History
Ramsey, is a village and a parish in Tendring district, Essex. The village is on a creek of the river Stour, 2 miles W by S of Dovercourt railway station, and 3 miles W S W of Harwich; and has a post-office under Harwich.

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
Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * British Listed Building http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-120292-parish-church-of-st-michael-ramsey-and-p
 * Harwich peninsula parish website http://www.harwichpeninsulaparish.co.uk/st_michaels.html