Wickford, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Wickford (St Catherine), is a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Billericay district, Essex. The village is on the river Crouch, and is 4 miles N E of Pitsea railway station; it has a post-office under Chelmsford. There is an Independent chapel. The sub-district contains 7 parishes and a chapelry.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Essex Record Office (online records available at Essex Archives Online).

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office See also Wickford Congregational Church.

Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Parish registers, 1538-1918 Microfilm copy of original at Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, England. Contents: item 7. Baptisms, 1538-1776; burials, 1538-1783; marriages, 1561-1753 -- item 8. Baptisms, 1776-1812; burials, 1783-1812 -- item 9. Marriages, 1755-1812 -- item 10. Baptisms, 1813-1879 -- item 11. Baptisms, 1879-1918 -- item 12. Burials, 1813-1912 -- item 13. Marriages, 1813-1838.

Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, reference: D/P70/1/1-7. Parish registers FHL BRITISH Film 1526987 Items 7-13

Bishop's transcripts for Wickford, 1639-1640 Microfilm of original records at the Guildhall Library, London. In Copies of parish registers brought in at visitations, various dates / Church of England. Diocese of London.

Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1639-1640 (199th parish). FHL BRITISH Film 413721

Bishop's transcripts for Wickford, 1800-1867 Microfilm copy of original at Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, England. Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, reference: D/CR 408.

Baptisms, burials, 1800-1832, 1840-1867; marriages, 1800-1832. FHL BRITISH Film 1702676 Item 6

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.

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
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex