Maldon All Saints with St Peter, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
MALDON, a town, parishes, two sub-districts, and a district in Essex. The three parishes are All Saints, St. Peter, and St. Mary. and that of St. Mary is a rectory, in the diocese of Rochester; There are places for worship for Independents, Baptists, Quakers, Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Catholic and '''Apostolic church. '''

Maldon's name comes from Mael meaning 'meeting place' and dun meaning 'hill', so translated as "meeting place on the hill". It was one of the only two towns in Essex (Colchester was the other), and King Edward the Elder lived here while combating the Danish settlers who had overrun North Essex and parts of East Anglia. St Mary's is built on the site of a Saxon wooden church, which was completely razed after the battle. The epic poem tells the tale of this brave but foolhardy act. It became the subject of the poem The Battle of Maldon.

The town still had the mint and supplied a warhorse and warship for the king's service in return for its privileges of self-government. The town's All Saints Church, unique in England in having a triangular tower, dates from around this period. In the seventeenth century Thomas Plume started the Plume Library to house over 8,000 books and pamphlets printed between 1487 and his death in 1704; the collection has been added to at various times since 1704. The Plume Library is to be found at St. Peter's Church.

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

Census records
Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Maldon 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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