Kelvedon Hatch, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Kelvedon Hatch, is a parish in Ongar district, Essex; on the river Roding, 2 miles SE of Chipping Ongar railway station, and 5 miles NNW of Brentwood. A Roman Catholic chapel is attached to Kelvedon Hall.

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:

Non-Conformist Churches
Roman Catholic

Poor Law Unions
Ongar Poor Law Union, Essex

Vestry minute-books for Kelvedon Hatch survive for the periods 1736-60 and 1835-81. In 1836 Kelvedon Hatch became part of the 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.

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

Websites
Kelvedon Hatch on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)