Tolleshunt Major, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Tolleshunt Major St Nicholas is an Ancient parish in Essex.

The large brick tower was built by Stephen Beckingham of Beckingham Hall, standing close by, around 1540-5.

Tolleshunt Major is a village and civil parish which for local goverment purposes is part of Maldon District in teh County of Essex.

Here is an 1848 historical perspective for this parish:

"TOLLESHUNT MAJOR, or BECKINGHAM (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Maldon, hundred of Thurstable, N. division of Essex, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Maldon; containing 447 inhabitants. It comprises 2185a. 3r. 5p., three-fourths of which are arable. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8; income, £150; patron, the Rev. C. W. Carwardine; impropriators, the New England Company. The church is an ancient edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel: on the north side was a chapel, now destroyed, and the arched entrance walled up."

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 369-372. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51348 Date accessed: 13 April 2011.

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
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Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office parish registers, Bishop's transcripts, Monumental Inscriptions.

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
Maldon 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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