High Easter, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
High Easter St Mary is an Ancient Parish in Essex.

EASTER, HIGH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Dunmow, N. division of Essex, 5 miles (S. by W.) from Dunmow; containing 975 inhabitants. The parish takes its distinguishing epithet from its elevated situation with respect to the parish of Good-Easter. It comprises by computation nearly 5000 acres, of which by far the greater portion is arable, and the remainder meadow and pasture, with 137 acres of wood; the soil of the arable land is tenacious, and produces fine crops: the surface is gently undulated. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Good-Easter, and valued in the king's books at £14. 14. 7.; appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. The church is a spacious and lofty structure, with a stately tower of stone surmounted by a spire.

From: 'Eastbridge - Easthams', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 127-129. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50935 Date accessed: 18 February 2011.

High Easter is a village and a civil parish in the Uttlesford District of Essex County Council. It is near the large town of Chelmsford and the hamlet of Stagden Cross. It is near the chief source of the River Can.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

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

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Poor Law Unions
Dunmow Poor Law Union,Essex part Chelmsford 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.

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