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Essex / A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN ESSEX
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ENGLAND JURISDICTIONS FOR 1851 is a map of the counties of England produced by Family Search. The map shows various levels of county division including parish and civil registration districts. The parish map shows all the ecclesiastical parishes in the historic county of Essex (Anglican Church parishes).
Civil registration commenced on 1st July 1837. Over the years with the growth and movement of the population the civil registration districts have altered. REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN ESSEX on the Genuki website tracks the changes made up to 31st March 1974 and also has a downloadable place name index which includes the registration district each was registered in.
CHURCH BURIAL REGISTERS
GENUKI has a list of Essex churches which includes Anglican and non-conformist churches by place and by name of church. FAMILY SEARCH has information on each Anglican church and parish.
ESSEX RECORD OFFICE (SEAX is the record office online catalogue) holds monumental inscriptions and the deposited church registers for most of historic Essex excluding parishes in the now London borough of Waltham Forest. Information on and actual digital online images for Anglican parish registers and non-conformist registers, those not conforming to the established church – the Church of England can be found on the Essex Record Office website ESSEX ANCESTORS. There is a subscription charge to view the images of the pages from the church registers. Essex Ancestors has no name indexes.
LOCAL LIBRARIES (Colchester, Harlow, Saffron Waldron and Southend-on-Sea) also hold microfilm copies of parish registers for parishes in their immediate area. A list of all ESSEX LIBRARIES
The Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons, has many family history centres around the world. You can order and use their microfilms for a small charge. A list of their CENTRES It is worth checking their catalogue to see which parish and cemetery registers they hold on microfilm in their FILM CATALOGUE
FAMILY SEARCH England Deaths and Burials 1538-1991 is a free index from the LDS which includes information about the records and sources.
ESSEX PARISH REGISTERS 1538-1900 a free index from the LDS including information about the records.
The National Burial Index 3 (NBI) CD was released March 2010 and covers 295 burial grounds in Essex. See the FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES website for coverage. Some of the indexes from the NBI are also on FINDMY PAST though not all Family History Societies have allowed their indexes from the NBI to be transferred to this website. Findmypast also has some monumental inscriptions for Essex.
Essex Family History Society has published transcripts of church registers and offer searches in their burial index and for transcriptions of monumental inscriptions. The BURIAL INDEX (1537-2000 mainly Anglican parishes) MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION search and CDS published by the society PARISH REGISTER PUBLICATIONS and PARISH COVERAGE
Information on the privately held ESSEX BURIAL INDEX 1813-1865
ESSEX ONLINE PARISH CLERKS have some parish burials and monumental inscriptions indexed
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FREEREG where volunteers transcribe registers and place them online.