Rochford, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Rochford, is a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Essex. The town is on the river Roche or Bromhill, an affluent of the river Crouch, 3½ miles N by W of Southend railway station, and 16½ miles S E of Chelmsford. It has a post-office under Chelmsford. There is an Independent and Wesleyan 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.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Essex Record Office (online records available at Essex Archives Online).

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

See also Rochford Hospital, Rochford Wesleyan Methodist Church, Rochford Congregational Church and Rocheway Evangelical Church

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Protestant Dissenters
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Rochford Poor Law Union, Essex

Microfilm copy of original at the Essex Record Office, Colchester. Churchwardens and overseers records, 1658-1913 Essex Record Office, Colchester, reference: D/P129/5/1-3, D/P129/8-10, D/P129/11/1-3, 12/1-6, 13/1A-5, 14/1-3, 15/1-4, 16/1-6, 17/1-9, 18/1-14, D/P129/21, 25/1, 28/1-5.

Churchwardens accounts, 1742-1913 Vestry records, 1785-1824 Constable records, 1742, 1774, 1829 Overseers rates, 1797, 1804, 1823 Overseers accounts, 1773-1774, 1800-1802 FHL BRITISH Film 1471655 Items 15-26 Overseers accounts, 1762-1809 FHL BRITISH Film 1471878 Overseers accounts, 1808-1869 Overseers settlements, 1698-1830 FHL BRITISH Film 1471879 Overseers settlements, 1808-1830 Apprenticeships, 1658-1659, 1709-1711, 1728-1812, 1823-1829 Bastardy records, 1712-1718, 1732, 1754-1756, 1767-1771, 1783-1795, 1809-1829 Settlements, 1704, 1756, 1791-1796, 1810, 1823-1829 Militia records, 1778, 1795-1809 Miscellaneous, 1773-1830 Surveyors accounts, 1782-1794 Charities, 1777 Miscellaneous, 1742, 1796-1805, 1820, 1898 FHL BRITISH Film 1471731 Items 1-44

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
Rochford on GENUKI

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