Littlebury, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Littlebury, is a village and a parish in Saffron Walden district, Essex. The village is on the river Cam, it is adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, 2 miles N of Audley-End railway station, and 2 miles W of Saffron-Walden; and has a postoffice under Saffron-Walden. The parish contains also the hamlet of Littlebury-Green



The village formerly supported a chapel, situated on Chapel Green, but no trace of it remains.

Littlebury is a small village in north-west Essex. It includes the two hamlets of Littlebury Green and Catmere End. Situated in the Uttlesford district, the parish of Littlebury includes the hamlets of Catmere End, Chapel Green, and Littlebury Green which lie to the west and south-west of the church.

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:

Non-Conformist Churches
Primitive Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Saffron Walden 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
Littlebury on GENUKI

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