Shellow Bowells, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Shellow Bowells was an Ancient Parish in Essex.

Its name is believed to be derived from Shellow, meaning a bend in the river, and the Beaulieu family.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

Shellow Bowells (or occasionally misspelt as Shellow Bowels) is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. The village church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, is no longer in use as such, having become a private dwelling. SHELLOW-BOWELS (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Ongar, hundred of Dunmow, N. division of Essex, 6¼ miles (N. E.) from Ougar; containing 134 inhabitants. This parish, which is supposed to have been formerly much more extensive, comprises 456a. 8p., whereof 366 acres are arable, 80 pasture, and 9 woodland. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated with that of Willingdale-Doe, and valued in the king's books at £7. 13. 4.; the tithes have been commuted for £120, and the glebe comprises 13 acres. The church is a handsome edifice of brick, erected on the site of a former structure in 1752.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 66-69. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51268&amp;amp;strquery=shellow bowels Date accessed: 06 February 2011.

The parish was linked to Willingdale-Doe.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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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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