Mayland, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Mayland St Barnabas is an Ancient parish in Essex.

St Barnabas church was re-built in 1867 and is a parish within the diocese of Chelmsford. The modern parish of Mayland St Barnabas is in the Maldon and Dengie deanery of the diocese of Chelmsford.

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.

Maylandsea, and the adjacent Mayland, are villages on the Dengie peninsula in Essex and are known as "the Maylands" locally (see village sign). They are part of the Althorne ward of the Maldon district, and have a Parish Council that covers both villages. Here is an 1848 historical perspective on this parish:

MAYLAND (St. Barnabas), a parish, in the union of Maldon, hundred of Dengie, S. division of Essex, 8½ miles (S. E.) from Maldon; containing 200 inhabitants, and comprising 2030a. 2r. 22p. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £13. 6. 8.; patrons and impropriators, the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the great tithes have been commuted for £410, and the vicarial for £142. Dr. John Gauden, successively Bishop of Exeter and of Worcester, and supposed by some to have been the author of Eikon Basilike, was born here in 1605.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 280-283. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51141 Date accessed: 11 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

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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