Mountnessing, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Mountnessing, includes two villages and a parish in Billericay district, Essex. The villages are Mountnessing and Mountnessing-Street; and they stand on a branch of the river Wid; the former 2 miles S by W of Ingatestone railway station, and 3¾ miles NE of Brentwood; the latter adjacent to the Great Eastern railway, 1½ mile NW of the former. The parish has a post office under Brentwood.

Mountnessing St Giles is an Ancient parish in Essex. The church was founded in the 13th century according to records of the Thoby Priory:

Mountnessing (St. Giles), is a parish, in the union of Billericay, hundred of Chelmsford, S. division of Essex, 2 miles (S. W.) from Ingatestone.

Mountnessing is a village in south Essex. It is situated to the north-east of Brentwood, south-west of Ingatestone.

Mountnessing is most noted for its windmill and for the parish church of St Giles.

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

Census records
Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Billericay 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.

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