Little Dunmow, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Little Dunmow or Dunmow, Little (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union and hundred of Dunmow, it is a division of Essex, 2¼ miles ESE from Great Dunmow.

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

Non-Conformist Churches
None

Census records

 * 1851 Census returns for both Great and Little Dunmow are missing.

Poor Law Unions

 * Dunmow 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
Little Dunmow on GENUKI

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