Leigh-on-Sea, Essex Genealogy
Guide to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Leigh-on-Sea, Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Clement, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex | |
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Rochford |
| County | Essex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Rochford |
| Registration District | Rochford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1684 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1639; 1800 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Rochford |
| 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]
Leigh is also known as Leigh on Sea, it is a small seaport town and a parish in Rochford district, Essex. The town stands on a creek of the Thames, at the skirt of a bold steep hill, adjacent to the Southend railway, opposite Canvey Point, 3 miles W of Southend and 4 miles SW by S of Rochford. There is a Wesleyan chapel.[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]
Leigh-on-Sea parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| ESSEX = EssexAncestors - (£)[2] | |||||
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[3] |
| Leigh-on-Sea Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| ESSEX | 1684-1886 | 1692-1899 | 1685-1876 | |||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
Online images are available Essex Record Office See also Leigh Methodist Wesleyan Church
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- Wesleyan Methodist
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Leigh-on-the-Sea on GENUKI
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870). Adapted: date accessed 20 May 2013.
- ↑ Essex Ancestors: Unearth Your Roots, Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office, accessed 28 January 2015.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes (n.p.: n.p., n.d.). FHL British Book 942 V25pm
