Radwinter, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Radwinter St Mary is an Ancient Parish in Essex. The parish includes Radwinter End.

RADWINTER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Saffron-Walden, hundred of Freshwell, N. division of Essex, 4½ miles (N.) from Thaxted; containing 915 inhabitants. The parish is intersected by a rivulet, which flows through the village to Great Sampford; the surface is varied and richly wooded, and the soil is fertile. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £21. 12. 11., and in the alternate gift of Lord Maynard and the Rev. John Bullock: the tithes have been commuted for £700; the glebe comprises 62 acres. The church is an ancient structure, with a square embattled tower surmounted by a lofty spire; the parsonage-house is a neat modern residence.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 630-633. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51229 Date accessed: 15 February 2011.

Radwinter is a village and a civil parish on the B1054 road,which for administrative purposes is in the Uttlesford district of Essex.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Saffron Walden 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.

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Web sites
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