Belchamp Otten, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes   Belchamp Otten

Guide to Belchamp Otten, Essex family history and genealogy. Parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish History
BELCHAMP-OTTON (St. Ethelbert and All Saints), is a parish, in the union of Sudbury, the hundred of Hinckford, and N. division of Essex, it is 5¼ miles (N. by E.) from Castle-Hedingham. This place derives the adjunct to its name from an ancient possessor called Otton, or Otho..

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
The registers skip 1623 to 1655 and 1681.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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