Harlow, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Harlow, is a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred in Essex. The village stands adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, near the River Stort and the boundary with Hertfordshire, it is 6 miles SSW of Bishop Stortford. The parish contains also the hamlet of Potter Street. St. Mary's church stands about 2 miles S of the parish church. There are two Baptist chapels. The sub-district contains eight parishes, and is in Epping district. The hundred contains ten parishes and part of another.

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

Non-Conformist Churches

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

Poor Law Unions

 * Epping 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
Harlow on GENUKI

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