Essex Archives and Libraries

Archives
Essex Record Office Wharf Road Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6YT UK Telephone: 03330 132 500 Email: [mailto:ero.enquiry@essex.gov.uk ero.enquiry@essex.gov.uk] Website Essex Archives Online Research services
 * Our holdings, which include parish registers, diaries, letters, court records, wartime records, manorial records and school records, take up nearly 8 miles of shelving, making us one of the largest county archives in England.


 * Parish registers
 * The Essex Record Office (ERO) holds registers from over 400 parishes, covering the present county of Essex, including Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock, and also those parts of north-east London that used to be in Essex. Most parishes have registers from the 17th or 18th century onwards, but some go back to 1538.
 * Essex Archives Online includes images of all registers of baptisms, marriages and burials that have been deposited either in the ERO or with our partners at Waltham Forest Archives. It excludes only baptism registers less than 16 years old and marriage registers from after 1957.

Libraries
Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre Valence House Becontree Avenue Dagenham, London RM8 3HT UK Telephone: 020 8227 2033 Email: [mailto:localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk] Website - Havering Local Studies Library Central Library St. Edwards' Way Romford, London RM1 3AR UK Telephone: 01708 432392 Email: [mailto:localstudies@havering.gov.uk localstudies@havering.gov.uk] Website - Newham Archives and Local Studies Library Stratford Library (First floor) 3 The Grove Stratford, London E15 1EL UK Telephone: 020 3373 6881 Email: [mailto:archiveslocalstudies@newham.gov.uk archiveslocalstudies@newham.gov.uk] Website - Redbridge Archives and History Redbridge Central Library Clements Road Ilford, London IG1 1EA UK Telephone: 020 8708 2414 Email: [mailto:info.heritage@visionrcl.org.uk info.heritage@visionrcl.org.uk] Website - Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library Vestry House Museum Vestry Road Walthamstow, London E17 9NH UK<brTelephone: 020 8496 4381 Email: [mailto:vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk] Website

- Albert Sloman Library - Special Collections Library The University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester, Essex CO4 3UA UK Telephone: 01206 873192 Email: [mailto:libline@essex.ac.uk libline@essex.ac.uk] Website: Sloman Special Collections

Museums

 * For a long list of Essex museums, go to List of museums in Essex in Wikipedia.

Chelmsford Museums Oaklands Park Moulsham St. Chelmsford, Essex CM2 9AQ UK Telephone: 1245 605700 Website
 * Chelmsford Museums consists of Chelmsford Museum, the Essex Regimental Museum, and the industrial and science collections at Sandford Mill.

Civil Registration Offices
The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.

Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in Essex.

Essex County Council Register Office
 * Certificate copies Get a certificate for a birth, marriage or death that happened in Essex.
 * We can give you certificates for births, marriages and deaths that happened in the area administered by Essex County Council, and from 1 July 1837.
 * We can’t give you certificates for births, marriages and deaths that happened in areas of Essex run by other Councils including Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock, e.g. Orsett, London Boroughs of Havering e.g. Romford, Hornchurch and Harold Wood, Barking and Dagenham, Waltham Forest, Newham and Redbridge e.g. Ilford.
 * We can’t supply certificates to people outside the UK.

- For certificate orders from the other offices in Essex, see:
 * Southend-on-Sea Register Office
 * Thurrock Register Office
 * Havering Register Office
 * Barking and Dagenham Register Office
 * Waltham Forest Register Office
 * Newham Register Office
 * Redbridge Register Office