Sudbury All Saints with Ballingdon and Brundon, Essex Genealogy

Guide to Sudbury All Saints with Ballingdon and Brundon, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SUDBURY ALL SAINTS with BALLINGDON and BRUNDON is also known as BALLINGDON, it is aparish, in the union of Sudbury, the hundred of Hinckford,and N. division of Essex, it is ½ a mile (S. W. by W.) from Sudbury. After the decay of the parochial church, the village of Ballingdon, which had been previously only a chapelry in the parish of Brundon, became the head of the parish. The inhabitants resort to the church of All Saints, Sudbury, and contribute towards the church-rate of that parish.

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
Sudbury All Saints with Ballingdon and Brundon parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Essex Record Office (online records available at Essex Archives Online).

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist (Suffolk)
 * Independent/Congregational (Suffolk)
 * Presbyterian (Suffolk)
 * Society of Friends/Quaker (Suffolk)

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

Websites
Sudbury on GENUKI

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