Little Wigborough, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Little Wigborough St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish.

Little Wigborough is located between Peldon &amp; Great Wigborough.

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.

WIGBOROUGH, LITTLE (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Lexden and Winstree, hundred of Winstree, N. division of Essex, 7¼ miles (S. by W.) from Colchester; containing 114 inhabitants. It comprises 1157 acres of land, all in good cultivation with the exception of 133 acres common or waste; and is bounded on the north by a creek of the river Blackwater, called Mersey channel, and on the south by another called Verley channel. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £10, and in the gift of the Governors of the Charter-House, London: the tithes have been commuted for £220, and the glebe comprises 20 acres. The church is a small edifice with a tower, romantically situated on the sea-shore.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 568-571. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51405&amp;strquery=great wigborough Date accessed: 13 February 2011. &gt;

Little Wigborough is a village in the Colchester borough of Essex, England and forms part of the Winstred Hundred civil parish.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office

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

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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.

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Web sites
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