Sible Hedingham, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hedingham-Sible or Sible Hedingham, is a village and a parish in Halstead district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the River Colne and the Colne-Valley railway, near Castle Hedingham railway station, 3¼ miles NW of Halstead; and has a post office under Halstead. There is a Baptist 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
Sible Hedingham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Peter See also Sible Hedingham Baptist Church

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist

Poor Law Unions

 * Halstead 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Sible Hedingham on GENUKI

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