North Fambridge, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
North Fambridge Holy Trinity is an Ancient Parish in Essex.

North Fambridge is a village and civil parish on the Dengie peninsula in Essex.

North Fambridge is on the north bank of the River Crouch opposite neighbouring South Fambridge, Essex Administratively North Fambridge forms part of the ward of Purleigh in the district of Maldon.

In the Domesday Book, North Fambridge was known as 'Fanbruge'.

FAMBRIDGE, NORTH (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Maldon, hundred of Dengie, S. division of Essex, 7 miles (S.) from Maldon; containing 142 inhabitants. The parish is separated from that of South Fambridge by the navigable river Crouch, which is crossed by a ferry; it comprises 1248a. 17p., whereof 970 acres are arable, 200 meadow, 24 woodland, and 30 salt-marsh. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £4. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for £334. The church, situated near the ferry, is a small edifice of brick.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 209-213. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50955 Date accessed: 11 April 2011.

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

Probate records
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