Halstead Holy Trinity, Essex Genealogy

Guide to Halstead Holy Trinity, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
HALSTEAD, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Essex. The town is adjacent to the River Colne, and to the Colne Valley railway. It is 14 miles NW by W of Colchester. The parish church is ancient; it was founded in 1340. Holy Trinity church is at the W end of the town and was built in 1844. The town has a head post office and a railway station. The parish also contains the hamlet of Greenstead Green. Holy Trinity was constituted a separate chapelry in 1844. Greenstead Green also is a separate chapelry. The head living is St. Andrews, it is a vicarage, and Holy Trinity is a p. curacy, in the diocese of Rochester. The places of worship, in 1851, were the Church of England, Independents, Baptists, and Quakers.

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

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Independent/Congregational
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)
 * Strict Baptist
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions

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

Halstead on GENUKI

Halstead Holy Trinity on GENUKI