Saffron Walden, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Saffron-Walden, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Essex. The town stands at the terminus of a branch railway of the Great Eastern, 2 miles from a junction at Wendon, it is1 mile E of the river Granton; there are five dissenting chapels, and a public cemetery. The places of worship, in 1851, were Church of England, Independents, Baptists, Quakers, with Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free-Thinking Christians.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Essex Record Office (online records available at Essex Archives Online).

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Mary the Virgin See also Abbey lane Congregational church, High Street (formerly Upper Meeting) Church, Hill Street (formerly Little Meeting) Church, London Road Strict Baptist church and Saffron Walden (Society of Friends)

Non-Conformist Churches

 * General Baptists
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Saffron Walden 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
Saffron Walden on GENUKI

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