Essex, England Genealogy

England Essex

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

County Information
In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Essex like this:

Essex, maritime co. in SE. of England; is bounded N. by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, E. by the North Sea, S. by the river Thames, and W. by Middlesex and Herts; greatest length, N. and S., 44 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 57 miles; 987,032 ac.; pop. 576,434. On the coast are several marshy islands, such as Canvey, Foulness, Wallasea, Mersea, &c. Essex is one of the Metropolitan shires, or "Six Home Counties, " and took its name from the East Saxons. It rests upon the London clay, and is watered by the Stour, Colne, Chelmer, Crouch, Thames, Roding, and Lea; the surface, flat near the coast and the rivers, is undulating and sometimes hilly towards the NW.; the soil is generally fertile. ...

Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Essex.

Civil Registration Districts
When the civil (government) registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Essex was divided into registration districts, each containing several parishes. To see a list of districts and the parishes they contained, click here.

Read more about England Civil Registration.

Websites

 * Essex Resources and help pages on RootsChat Essex Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * History House - the history of Essex. Dips into the history of its towns, villages, parishes, and its people; includes White's 1848 and 1863 Directories and 1874 Post Office Directory. www.historyhouse.co.uk
 * A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
 * England Essex Church of England Parish Registers and Bishops' Transcripts (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Search the Essex Place-names site for locations throughout the county.
 * To see a list of Essex parishes and the pre-1858 ecclesiastical courts that had probate jurisdiction over them, go to Essex Probate Records. *To view a further list of web sites and/or web pages for Essex and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.

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