Greensted-juxta-Ongar, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes   Greensted (near Ongar)

Parish History
GREENSTEAD, or Greenstead-Ongar (St. Andrew), is a parish, in the union and hundred of Ongar, and S. division of Essex, it is 1¼ miles (W. by S.) from Ongar.

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
Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office

Poor Law Unions
Ongar Poor Law Union, Essex

No parish records are known to survive except the registers. A few figures of poor relief are available from Parliamentary returns but these are probably not very reliable. In 1776 expenditure on poor relief was £11. For the three years 1783-5 the average annual expenditure was £29. By 1800-1 the annual expenditure had risen to £150, but in 1802-3 it was only £74. Figures of expenditure on poor relief alone are missing for the years 1803-11; the poor rates, which also include administrative expenses and county rates, rose from £91 in 1803-4 to £255 in 1810-11. The cost of relief rose from £174 in 1811-12 to £486 in 1819-20. The cost for 1820-1 was, however, only £144. There was a parish poorhouse by 1776. In 1841 there were 'almshouses' belonging to the parish, situated at Greenstead Green, opposite Greenstead House. ( These had probably been provided by the parish for the accommodation of its poor: there is no evidence that they were a privately endowed charity. They had disappeared by 1873-4. In 1836 Greenstead became part of Ongar Poor Law Union.

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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