Little Waltham, Essex Genealogy

England Essex  Essex Parishes  Little Waltham

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

Parish History
Waltham (Little) or Little Waltham, is a parish, with a village, in Chelmsford district, Essex; it is 3½ miles N of Chelmsford railway station. It has a post-office under Chelmsford.

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.

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

The Essex Archives has the following church records available:

St. Martin Parish (Church of England)


 * Baptisms: 1538-1629, 1633-1945 (online)
 * Burials: 1539-1953 (online)
 * Marriages 1539-1957 (online), 1957-2003 (originals)
 * Bishop's Transcripts (originals or microfilm), lots of gaps
 * baptisms 1538-1869
 * burials 1539-1868
 * marriages (1539-1837)

Little Waltham Congregational Church


 * Baptisms: 1803-1837 (National Archives), 1841-1833 (originals)
 * Burials: 1823-1837 (National Archives), 1841-1899 (originals)
 * Marriages: 1862-1918 (originals)

Family History Library
Little Waltham (Independent) indices


 * christening extracts (1804-1837)
 * parish register extracts

Original Records


 * Bishop's Transcripts (1800-1869)
 * Births and baptisms of Independent Church (1803-1837)
 * Parish registers for Little Waltham (1538-1875)
 * Congregational Church (1844-1933)

Poor Law Unions
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.

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