Tolleshunt Knights, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Tolleshunt Knights All Saints is an Ancient parish in Essex.

Tolleshunt Knights is a village and civil parish in the county of Essex.

The Parish has a Parish council, and lies within the area of Maldon District Council. It borders Tiptree, Layer Marney and Salcott cum Virley within the Colchester Borough Council's District and Tolleshunt D'Arcy also within Maldon District. Prior to Tiptree Parish Council being established in 1934 much of the Tiptree Heath area was within the boundaries of Tolleshunt Knights civil parish.

The village is also the location of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, an Orthodox monastery founded by Archimandrite Sophrony in 1958. Here is an 1848 historical perspective for this parish:

"TOLLESHUNT, KNIGHTS' (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Maldon, hundred of Thurstable, N. division of Essex, 9 miles (N. E.) from Maldon; containing 313 inhabitants. This parish comprises 2079a. 3r. 17p., mostly arable land; it is pleasantly situated, and contains some ancient mansions. A fair is held on the 29th of June. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £16. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for £540, and the glebe contains 60 acres. The church is a very ancient edifice, with a belfry-turret of wood, and has a monument of a Knight Templar. Near the manor-house of Barnewalden here, some Roman pavements were discovered a few years since."

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 369-372. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51348 Date accessed: 13 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Maldon 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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