Willingale Spain, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Willingale is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district, in the county of Essex, England. Other nearby settlements include Miller's Green, Shallow Bowells and Birds Green. Willingale has two churches, one called St Christopher, Willingale.[See Willingale Doe, Essex] and one called St Andrew's Church.

St Andrew's Church, Willingale, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Willingale, Essex, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building,and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.The church stands less than 50 yards (46 m) from the adjacent church of St Christopher Willingale Doe, Essex, and shares its churchyard.

WILLINGALE-SPAIN (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Ongar, hundred of Dunmow, N. division of Essex, 6 miles (N. E.) from Ongar; containing 207 inhabitants. The parish derives the adjunct to its name from the family of Hervey de Spain, to whom it belonged at the time of the Norman survey. It comprises 1200a. 31p., of which 970 acres are arable, 200 pasture, and 30 wood; the soil is similar to that of the preceding parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown, on the nomination of the Bishop of London: the tithes have been commuted for £322. 12., and the glebe comprises 29½ acres. The church has a handsome altarpiece, the gift of William Brocket, Esq.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 579-581. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51409&amp;amp;strquery=willingale doe Date accessed: 07 February 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Andrew

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
Ongar 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.

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Web sites
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