Harlow, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes



Parish History
Harlow, is a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred in Essex. The village stands adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, near the river Stort and the boundary with Hertfordshire, 6 miles SSW of Bishop-Stortford. The parish contains also the hamlet of Potterstreet. St. John and St. Mary, are vicarages in the diocese of Rochester. The parish church stands on a rising ground; and includes two chantry chapels. St. Mary's church stands about 2 miles S of the parish church. There are two Baptist chapels. The sub-district contains eight parishes, and is in Epping district. The hundred contains ten parishes and part of another.

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 St mary and St Hugh

See also All Saints Mission Church, St John the Baptist, St Mary Magdalene, Fore Street Baptist Church and Potter Street Baptist Church and the Monumental Inscriptions of Foster Strret Protestant Dissenters Burial Ground for [Old]Harlow

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
Epping 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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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