Tendring, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Tendring St Edmund King and Martyr is an Ancient Parish in Essex.

Apart from the tower, which was built in 1876, the church dates from the 13th century. The most interesting feature of this church is the hammerbeam roof.

The modern parish is part of the Tendring with Little Bentley and Beaumont cum Moze benefice in the Harwich deanery of the Diocese of Chelmsford.

Due to it's central location it became the name of Tendring Hundred, and housed the Tendring Workhouse at Tendring Heath.

The village and civil parish are for local goverment purposes within the Tendring District of Essex.

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
Tendring 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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