Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Ramsden Bellhouse, is a parish, with a village, in Billericay district, Essex; it is adjacent to the River Crouch, 2¾ miles E by S of Billericay and 4¾ miles NW of Pitsea railway station. It has a post-office by the name of Ramsden Heath under Ingatestone.

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

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Roman Catholic

Poor Law Unions

 * Billericay 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
Ramsden Bellhouse on GENUKI

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