White Roding, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
White Roding St Martin is an Ancient Parish in Essex.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

The Rodings (or Roothings) are a group of villages in Essex, England, the largest group in the country to bear a common name.They are believed to be the remnants of a single Anglo-Saxon community known as the Hroðingas, led by Hroða, who sailed up the River Thames and along a tributary in the sixth century and settled in the area. This was one of the sub-kingdoms that were absorbed into the Kingdom of Essex. The River Roding and the villages derived their name from Hroda. The typical pronunciation of the name is "Roadings".

The villages are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Rodinges in the Hundred of Dunmow. In the time of Edward the Confessor, it was held by the Abbey of St Æthelthryth of Ely; however, after the Norman Conquest, part was taken by William de Warenne. Part was also held by the de Veres and de Mandevilles families, who became the Earls of Oxford and Earls of Essex.By the 14th century, the boundaries and names of the villages had become fairly established. Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding now form a single parish in the district of Epping Forest.

ROOTHING, WHITE (St. Martin), a parish, in the union and hundred of Dunmow, N. division of Essex, 8 miles (N.) from Ongar; containing 520 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the river Roden, and comprises 2522a. 1r. 14p., of which 1949 acres are arable, 221 meadow and pasture, 201 woodland and plantations, and the remainder garden and waste. The surface is elevated; the soil, though various, is moderately fertile, and the scenery agreeably diversified. The village is pleasant, and contains several neatly-built houses. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £26, and in the gift of J. Maryon Wilson, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £600, and the glebe comprises 63 acres. The church is a spacious structure, with a large embattled tower surmounted by a lofty spire.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 695-697. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51244&amp;amp;strquery=roothing Date accessed: 19 February 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Dunmow Poor Law Union,Essex

Probate records
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