Mount Bures, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Bures, Mount (St. John) or Mount Bures, is a parish, in the union of Lexden and Winstree, it is in the division of Essex, 6 miles S S E from Sudbury. The parish is situated on the banks of the river Stour.

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
BIVRI Marriages 1813-1837

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

Non-Conformist Curches
Independent/Congregational

Poor Law Unions
Lexden and Winstree 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
Mount Bures on GENUKI

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