Society of Genealogists - England: Essex Resources

Essex

Shelf Mark: ES

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-B | C-F | G-L | M-R | S-T | U-Z

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Essex parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2001 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 9, part 4: Essex. London: SoG, 1993. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Catalogue of Essex parish records 1240-1894 with supplement on nonconformists, charities, societies & school records 1341-1903: Essex Record Office publications, no. 7 [ES/R 201]

Essex BTs [in the archives of the Diocese of London] [Typescript.] [ES/R 110]

Essex family history: a genealogists' guide to the Essex Record Office: Essex Record Office publication, no. 102 [ES/PER]

Essex parish records 1240-1894: Essex Record Office publications, no. 7 [Store A]

The genealogist's consolidated guide to parish register copies & indexes in the Outer London area 1538-1837 [London/Middlesex tracts box]

Guide to parish registers deposited in the Greater London Record Office [Middle Library enquiry counter]

Guide to the parish registers of [London Borough of] Newham [Typescript.] [Shelf 9]

List of parish records in the Essex Record Office [Typescript.] [Essex tracts box, Missing 11/97]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the Origins Network.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at Family Search

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

East Anglian marriages mainly before 1700 series 1 [Typescript.] [SF/R 285]

East Anglian marriages before 1812 series 2 [Typescript.] [SF/R 286]

Essex references from the parish register of Bishop Stortford, Herts, 1561-1712: Essex registers, vol. 1 [Typescript.] [ES/R 33]

Index to Lyson's environs of London [Manuscript.] [MX/M 57]

IPSWICH (Cemetery): B & cremations 1942-68 [Newspaper cuttings.] [SF/R 295-296]

The old parish books of the Archdeaconry of Colchester, extracted from St. Albans Diocesan magazine, vol. 7-9, 1902-04: Essex tracts, vol. 1 [ES/G 4]

The parochial registers of the Colchester Archdeaconry [prior to 1813] [Manuscript.] [ES/G 31]

The parochial registers of the Essex Archdeaconry [prior to 1813] [Manuscript.] [ES/G 30]

Essex Quarterly Meeting (Quakers): M 1795-1837: Essex marriage registers, vols. 70-74 [Typescript.] [ES/R 106]

Quaker digest of Essex: Z(I) 1613-1837, M(I) 1659-1837, B (I) 1630-1837 [ES/R 149]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Essex Quarterly Meeting: Z 1613-1837 & 1660-1751, M 1659-1837 & 1666-1753, B 1630-1837 & 1665-1749 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3364]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - London & Middlesex Quarterly Meeting: Z 1644-1838 & 1694-1836, M 1657-1837 & 1670-1770, B 1661-1837 & 1678-1785 (includes Plaistow, Epping, Barking & Waltham Abbey, Essex) [Microfilm.] [Mf 3365-67]

Society of Friends marriages in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, London & Middlesex [1660-1836]: Hertfordshire marriages, vol. 6 [Typescript.] [HT/R 66]

Bishop Challoner's register of baptisms & Easter communicants 1730-60 [London, the home counties & beyond] [Photocopy.] [RC/REG]

Bishop Richard Challoner's personal register: C 1730-80 [London, the home counties & beyond] [Photocopy.] [RC/REG]

The Royston Crow: ZMD(I) 1876-99 [HT/R 74]

Marriage Licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network

Essex marriage licences from the following sources: Archdeaconry of Essex Act books 1579-1640, Commissary Court of the Bishop of London 1619-69, Archdeaconry of Colchester 1585-1641, in alphabetical order of surname [Typescript.] [ES/R 174]

Index to Essex marriage licences 1665-1851 [Computer printout.] [ES/R 171-173]

Index to marriage licences in Essex peculiars: Essex marriage licences 1665-1851, vol. 3 [Computer printout.] [ES/R 173]

Marriage licence bonds in the Suffolk Archdeaconry Registry at Ipswich, 1663-1750 [ML/SUF]

Marriage licences from the official notebooks of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk deposited at the Ipswich Probate Court, 1613-1707 [vol. 2: Manuscript.] [SF/R 272 & SF/R 274]

Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Deanery of Bocking: marriage allegations 1771-89 [Microfilm.] [Mf 4153]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

Greater London cemeteries & crematoria. 6th edn. London: SoG, 1999. [Middle Library enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

The ancient sepulchral monuments of Essex: a record of interesting tombs in Essex churches & some account of the persons & families connected with them [Store A folio shelves]

Essex MIs, a list of graveyards where the inscriptions have been copied: extracted from the Essex review, January 1951 [Typescript.] [Essex tracts box]

Essex MIs from 'Essex Curiosities': Essex monumental inscriptions, vol. 5 [Typescript.] [ES/M 5]

Finding Essex monumental inscriptions: a list of recorded graveyards & their references in the ESFH area [Essex tracts box]

Index to Lyson's environs of London [MX/M 57]

London cemeteries: an illustrated guide & gazetteer [MX/M 54]

London parishes, vol. 3 : London outside the City (Battersea - Whitechapel) being genealogical notes mainly taken from editions of Stow's Survey of London & Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum [Manuscript.] [MX/G 94]

Memorials of the antiquities & architecture, family history & heraldry of the county of Essex: The Suckling Papers [Store A folio shelves]

The monumental brasses of Essex: Monumental Brass Society county series, vol. 12 [ES/M 11A-B]

The monumental brasses of Essex, parts 1 & 2: Monumental Brass Society county series [Essex tracts box]

Monumental inscriptions in England relating to West Indians: in Caribbeana, being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, & antiquities of the British West Indies, vol. 1-5 [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

ESSEX - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

ESSEX - DIRECTORIES

or ESSEX - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at the National Archives

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court e.g. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

ESSEX - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-B

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue