Walton le Soken, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes



Parish History
Walton-Le-Soken, or Walton-on-the-Naze, is a village and a parish in Tendring district, Essex. The village stands on the coast, at the terminus of the Tendring Hundred railway, it is 7½ miles by water south of Harwich; and has a post-office under Colchester, as well as a railway station.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office for Walton All Saints, Station Street Zion methodist Church, Walton on the Naze United Reformed Church.

Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)and Walton-on-the-Naze Essex Online Parish Clerks

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
Tendring 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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