Great Baddow, Essex Genealogy

England Essex  Essex Parishes  Great Baddow

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

Parish History
Great Baddow or Baddow (Great), is a village, a parish, and a sub district of Chelmsford, Essex. The village stands near the river Chelmer, it is 2 miles ESE of Chelmsford 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
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Peter and Paul, also available All Saints, Salisbury Road Strict Baptist Church register of burials, Grays and Romford Primitive Methodist Church baptisms register, London Road Wesleyan Methodist Church Baptisms and Marriages, New Road United Methodist Church baptisms and marriages

Poor Law Unions
Orsett 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