Clavering, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
CLAVERING, is a parish and a hundred in Essex. The parish is in Saffron-Walden district; it lies on the west border of the county, it is 3½ miles SW of Newport railway station, and 6½ miles SW by S of Saffron-Walden; it has a post office under Bishops-Stortford. There is and Independent chapel, and a Primitive Methodist 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.

Poor Law Unions
Saffron Walden 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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