Southminster, Essex Genealogy
Guide to Southminster, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Southminster, Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Leonard Southminster Essex | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Dengie |
| County | Essex |
| Poor Law Union | Maldon |
| Registration District | Maldon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1700 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1629 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Dengie |
| 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]
Southminster, is a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Maldon district, Essex. The village stands at the terminus of the South Essex railway, 9 miles SE of Maldon; and has a post-office under Maldon. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists.[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]
Southminster 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] |
| Southminster Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| ESSEX | 1700-1907 | 1702-1957 | 1700-1977 | |||
| FSPRs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office Parish registers, Bishop's transcripts and transcripts
See also Southminster Congregational Church
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
- 1613-1971 England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
- Independent/Congregational
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Prior to the foundation of Maldon Poor Law Union, Essex a workhouse existed in the parish. Essex Record Office has reference Q/CR 1/9/7 Original returns made by overseers for 1800-1801, 1816-1817 1800-1817. These records were not filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Southminster on GENUKI
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870). Adapted 15 May 2013.
- ↑ Essex Ancestors: Unearth Your Roots, Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office, accessed 4 September 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Essex Parish Registers (FamilySearch Historical Records),' FamilySearch, accessed 2 September 2014.
