Southend St John the Baptist, Essex Genealogy

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Guide to Southend St John the Baptist, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SOUTHEND, is a hamlet, in the parish of Prittlewell, the union and hundred of Rochford, and S. division of Essex, it is 1¾ mile (S. S. E.) from the village of Prittlewell. Southend is situated at the mouth of the Thames, directly opposite the river Medway. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Southend All Saints, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Southend St Erkenwald, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Southend St Francis and St John Bosco, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Southend St Mark, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Westcliff-on-Sea St Alban the Martyr, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Westcliff-on-Sea St Andrew, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Westcliff-on-Sea St Michael, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Westcliff-on-Sea St Paul, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Westcliff-on-Sea St Saviour, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office See also Prittlewell, Essex for earlier registers and images for All Saints from 1878, St Erkenwald from 1910, Southend Hospital, Cliff Town Congregational Church from 1831, Michael Tomlin Memorial United Methodist Church, Park Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Southend Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, St. Francis and St. John Bosco (mission to All Saints) St. Mark Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church Warrior Square (later Bournemouth Park) Congregational Church York Road Wesleyan Methodist Church

Thorpe Bay Essex Online Parish Clerks( OPC)

Westcliff on Sea Essex Online Parish Clerks OPC)

Poor Law Unions
Rochford 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Southend on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)