Mountnessing, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes   Mountnessing



Parish History
Mountnessing (St. Giles), includes two villages and a parish in Billericay district, Essex. The villages are Mountnessing and Mountnessing-Street; they are on a branch of the river Wid; the former 2 miles S by W of Ingatestone railway station, and 3¾ miles NE of Brentwood; the latter adjacent to the Great Eastern railway, 1½ mile NW of the former. The parish has a post office under Brentwood.

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
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

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

Poor Law Unions
Billericay 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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