Frating, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes



Parish History
A brief discription of Frating by Samuel A. Lewis is:

FRATING, a parish, in the union and hundred of Tendring, N. division of Essex, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Colchester; containing 271 inhabitants.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848).

Frating was an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Frating is a village and small civil parish which for local government purposes is part of the Tendring district of Essex. It is about 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of Colchester and 15 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Clacton-on-Sea. The parish includes the settlements of Frating Green and Hockley.

The parish church (dedication not recorded) was delared redundant in 1976 and was later converted to a private house. The living was a rectory shared with Thorrington.

Now known as Old Church House the building retains architectural features of the Norman Church.

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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Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office for the parish images online 1560-1975

Parish registers Microfilm of original records in the Essex Records Office, Chelmsford. Christenings, marriages and burials.

Parish registers FHL BRITISH Film 571179 Item 7

Bishop's transcripts for Frating Microfilm copy of original at Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, England. Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, no.: D/CR 151.

Baptisms, burials, 1800-1877; marriages, 1800-1839. FHL BRITISH Film 1702315 Item 5

Essex Record Office also hold transcripts for various registers under their T/R references transcript collections.

Census records
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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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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For images and architectural information about the Old Church http://unlockingessex.essexcc.gov.uk/custom_pages/monument_detail.asp?kids=1&amp;monument_id=8283