Hadstock, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex England    Essex Parishes

Parish History
HADSTOCK, a village and a parish in the district of Linton and county of Essex. The village stands near the boundary with Cambridgeshire, 1 mile S of Linton r. station, and 4 ENE of Chesterford; was once a market town; and still has a fair on 28 June. The parish comprises 1,870 acres; and its post town is Linton, under Cambridge. Real property, £2, 714. Pop., 511. Houses, 112. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to S. Malthus, Esq: Traces have been seen of a Roman villa. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £267.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Norman and cruciform; has a tower; and was recently in disrepair. A well set round with stones, and called St. Botolph's well, is in the churchyard. There is a free school.

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870)

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
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Poor Law Unions
Linton Poor Law Union, Cambridgeshire

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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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