Canvey Island, Essex Genealogy

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

Chapel History
CANVEY ISLAND, is a chapelry, partly in the parishes ofNorth and South Benfleet, BowersGifford, Laindon, Pitsea, and Vange, in the union of Billericay, the hundred of Barstable, and partly in the parishes of Leigh, Prettlewell, and Southchurch, which are in the union and hundred of Rochford, S. division of Essex: the chapel is 6¼ miles (W. S. W.) from Leigh. This island is situated near the mouth of the Thames,. the chapel is dedicated to St. Catherine.

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
Canvey Island 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
Dutch Church

Poor Law Unions
Rochford Poor Law Union, Essex 1880 onwards

Orsett Poor Law Union, Essex 1837-1880

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

Canvey Island on GENUKI