Buckhurst Hill, Essex Genealogy

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Guide to Buckhurst Hill, Essex family history and genealogy. Parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.



Chapel History
BUCKHURST, is a chapelryinChigwell and Loughton'parishes', Chigwell parish is in the union of Epping and hundred of Ongar the S. division of Essex. Buckhurst is on the Eastern Counties railway, is adjacent to Epping forest, and 9¾ miles NE of Bishopsgate, London. There is an Independent chapel. The parish of Chigwell (St. Mary), is 6 miles South from Epping. St. John's chapel at Buchurst Hill was consecrated in April, 1837. Loughton is also in the union (district) of Epping and on the East side of Epping forest.

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.

Buckhurst Hill St Stephen Parish
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.

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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