Broomfield, Essex Genealogy
Guide to Broomfield, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Broomfield, Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Mary, Broomfield, Essex | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Chelmsford |
| County | Essex |
| Poor Law Union | Chelmsford |
| Registration District | Chelmsford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1546 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1629 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Chelmsford |
| Diocese | Pre-1846 - London; Post-1845 - Rochester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex |
| Location of Archive | |
| Essex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Broomfield (St Mary the Virgin), is a parish in Chelmsford district, Essex; on the river Chelmer, near the Eastern Counties railway, it is 2 miles N of Chelmsford.[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]
| Earliest | |||||||||||||||||||
| Images | 1546-1997 | EssexAncestors[2] | 1546-1933 | EssexAncestors[2] | 1546-1962 | EssexAncestors[2] | |||||||||||||
| Indexes | 1547-1754 | findmypast[3] | 1546-1929 | findmypast[4] | |||||||||||||||
Non-Conformists Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
- Independent/Congregational
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)
Broomfield on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870). Adapted: access date 10 May 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Essex Ancestors: Unearth Your Roots, Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office, accessed 3 March 2012.
- ↑ "Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county," Origins.net, accessed 12 June 2011; Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., 1994). FHL Book 942 K22L 1994
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage,' Find My Past, accessed 11 April 2012. For a breakdown of missing years, see 'National Burial Index - Coverage: Essex,' Federation of Family History Societies, accessed 23 April 2012.
