Great Wakering, Essex Genealogy

England Essex  Essex Parishes  Great Wakering

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

Parish History
Great Wakering or Wakering (Great), is a village, a parish, and a sub district, in Rochford district, Essex. The village stands near the coast, 4 1/4 miles E by N of Southend railway station. The parish includes Rusley and Great Potton islands. There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels.

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
Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office

Poor Law Unions
Rochford 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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