Buckhurst Hill, Essex Genealogy

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

Chapel History
BUCKHURST, is a chapelry in Chigwell and Loughton parishes, Essex; on the Eastern Counties railway, it is adjacent to Epping forest, 9¾ miles NE of Bishopsgate, London. It has a station, by the name of Buckhurst Hill, on the railway, and a post office, by the name of the name of Buckhurst under Woodford, London, N. E. There is an Independent chapel.

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.

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
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