Mount Bures, Essex Genealogy
Guide to Mount Bures, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Mount Bures, Essex | |
|---|---|
 St. John Mount Bures, Essex | |
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Lexden (Colchester) |
| County | Essex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Lexden and Winstree |
| Registration District | Lexden |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1540 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1629 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Halstead |
| Diocese | Pre-1846 - London; Post-1845 - Rochester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Colchester |
| Location of Archive | |
| Essex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Bures, Mount (St. John) or Mount Bures, is a parish, in the union of Lexden and Winstree, it is in the division of Essex, 6 miles SSE from Sudbury. The parish is situated on the banks of the River Stour.[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]
BIVRI Marriages 1813-1837
Mount Bures parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| ESSEX = EssexAncestors - (£)[2] | |||||
| FSPRs = England, Essex Parish Registers, 1503-1997 (FamilySearch) - free[3] |
| Mount Bures Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| ESSEX | 1540-1958 | 1558-1837 | 1546-1994 | |||
| FSPRs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- 1613-1971 England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
- Independent/Congregational
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Mount Bures on GENUKI
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wilson John M., Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales(1870) Adapted: date accessed 19 May 2013.
- ↑ Essex Ancestors: Unearth Your Roots, Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office, accessed 11 September 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Essex Parish Registers (FamilySearch Historical Records),' FamilySearch, accessed 2 September 2014.
- ↑ From: 'Mount Bures: Local government', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10: Lexden Hundred (Part) including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe (2001), pp. 74. British History. Date accessed: 14 February 2011.
