Basildon, Essex Genealogy
Guide to Basildon, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Basildon, Essex | |
|---|---|
 Holy Cross Basildon Essex | |
| Type | Chapelry (England) |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Barstable |
| County | Essex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Billericay |
| Registration District | Billericay |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1653; For more records see Laindon | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1639; 1800 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Barstable |
| Diocese | Pre-1846 - London; Post-1845 - Rochester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Essex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BASILDON, a chapelry, is in the parish of Laindon, union of Billericay, hundred of Barstable, and S. division of Essex, it is 4½ miles SE by S from Billericay. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Cross, is a neat and substantial edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel, with an embattled tower surmounted by a spire.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Basildon parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| ESSEX = EssexAncestors - (£)[2] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] |
| Basildon Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| ESSEX | 1653-1930 | 1654-1812 | 1653-1947 | |||
| NBI | 1688-1812 | |||||
Online images are available Essex Record Office Holy Cross and St Andrew See also Basildon and Pitsea Congregational Church.
Non-Conformist Parishes[edit | edit source]
- 1613-1971 England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)
Basildon on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England Adapted: access date 7 May 2013
- ↑ Essex Ancestors: Unearth Your Roots, Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office, accessed 3 March 2012.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage,' Find My Past, accessed 15 May 2012. For a breakdown of missing years, see 'National Burial Index - Coverage: Essex,' Federation of Family History Societies, accessed 15 May 2012.
