Kelvedon, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Kelvedon, is a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Witham district, Essex. The village stands partly on a rising ground, on the right bank of the River Blackwater, it is adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, 3 1/2 miles NE of Witham. There are chapels for Independents and Quakers.

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
Kelvedon parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:


 * Kelvedon Congregational Church Baptisms marriage Burials Monumental Inscriptions


 * Kelvedon Cemetery


 * Kelvedon Meeting (Society of Friends) Bishop's transcripts burials and Monumental Inscriptions

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions

 * Witham 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.

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 on GENUKI

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