Theydon Garnon, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Theydon Garnon is also known as Thoydon-Garnon, or Coopersale, it is a parish in Epping district, Essex; 2 miles SSE of Epping railway station. It has a post-office by the name of Coopersale under Epping.

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
Theydon Garnon parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office All Saints See also St Alban Coopersale and Theydon Garnon meeting (Society of Friends) Bishop's Transcripts burials in the parish.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)

Poor Law Unions

 * Epping Poor Law Union, Essex In 1836 Theydon Garnon became part of the Epping Poor Law Union.

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
Theydon Garnon on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)