St Lawrence Newland, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex



Parish History
St Lawrence Newland is an Ancient parish in Essex

The modern parish is in the Maldon and Dengie deanery of the Diocese of Chelmsford.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

St Lawrence Newland is a civil parish on the Dengie peninsula and is for local government purposes part of the Maldon District of Essex.

White's Directory of Essex 1848 contains the following entry

"ST. LAWRENCE NEWLAND is a pleasant and fertile parish of scattered houses, 8 miles East by South of Maldon and contains 176 inhabitants, and 2031A.3R.7P. of land, extending northward to the marshes on the south side of the broad estuary of the Blackwater. It is in three reputed manors, viz., East Hall, West Hall, and St. Lawrence Hall; but the land is now all freehold, and each owner has the manorial rights of his own estate. The principal proprietors are. J.H. Pattison, Esq., Benjamin Torin, Esq., J.H. Green, Esq., Dr. Rolfe, James Parker, Esq., and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. West Newland belonged to the priory of Holy Trinity, at Cambridge, both before and after the Conquest; and it and the other estates have been held by the Ledett, Austen, Baynard, Mason, Trew, and other families.

The Church is a plain, ancient building, not in good repair, and standing on an eminence. Till 1438 it was appropriated to Beleigh Abbey. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £18.6s.8d., and in 1831 at £498, is in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. J.B. Carwardine, M.A., who has a neat and pleasantly situated Rectory House, of white brick, slated. The glebe is 6A., and the tithes were commuted in 1837 for £552 per annum. In the Mon. Anglic., Vol. II., p.626, it is stated that the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's gave 40A. of land in Tillingham to Gerard, the priest of St. Lawrence, and his successors in the rectory; but the incumbents have not enjoyed it in the memory of man, and there is no record shewing when or how it was lost. The poor have £1.8s.8¾d. yearly from Aylett's Charity."

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Civil Registration
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Church records
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Parish registers for St. Lawrence-Newland Microfilm of original records at the Essex Record Office, Chelmsford. Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, no.: D/P361/1/1-2A, 12-13.

Baptisms, 1704-1772; marriages, 1705-1753; burials, 1704-1771. Baptisms, burials, 1766-1812. Marriages, 1754-1836. Marriage banns, 1941-1981. FHL BRITISH Film 1472679 Items 17 - 21 Baptisms, 1704-1772; marriages, 1705-1753; burials, 1704-1771 (another filming). Marriages, 1754-1812 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 857057 Items 9 - 10

Bishop's transcripts for St. Lawrence-Newland Microfilm copy of original at Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, England. Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, no.: D/CR 311.

Baptisms, burials, 1800-1833, 1848-1870; marriages, 1800-1833, 1848. FHL BRITISH Film 1702557 Item 5

Bishop's transcripts for St. Lawrence-Newland Microfilm of original records at the Guildhall Library, London. IN Copies of parish registers brought in at visitations, various dates / Church of England. Diocese of London.

Baptisms, marriages, burials 1629-1631 (134th parish) FHL BRITISH Film 413720 Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1639-1640 (154th parish) FHL BRITISH Film 413721

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Maldon Poor Law Union, Essex

Probate records
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