Belchamp Otten, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
BELCHAMP-OTTON (St. Ethelbert and All Saints), is a parish, in the union of Sudbury, the hundred of Hinckford, and N division of Essex, it is 5¼ miles N by E from Hedingham Castle. This place derives the adjunct to its name from an ancient possessor called Otton, or Otho..

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
The registers skip 1623 to 1655 and 1681.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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

Belchamp Otten on GENUKI