Stanway, Essex Genealogy
Guide to Stanway, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Stanway, Essex | |
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![]() St Allbrights Stanway 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: 1704 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1639; 1800 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Coggeshall |
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]
STANWAY (All Saints), is a parish, in the union of Lexden and Winstree, the Colchester division of the hundred of Lexden, and N. division of Essex, it is 4 miles (W. by S.) from Colchester. Stanway was formerly divided into the two parishes of Magna and Parva.[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]
Stanway, Essex Genealogy 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] |
Stanway, Essex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
ESSEX | 1704-1974 | 1704-1957 | 1704-1956; 1982-1996 (cremations) | |||
FSPRs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
Stanway All Saints, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Stanway All Saints, Essex Parish Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
ESSEX | 1845-1954 | 1845-1958 | 1845-1937 |
Non-Conformist Churches[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]
Lexden and Winstree Poor Law Union, Essex Genealogy
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]
Stanway on GENUKI
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848). Adapted 4 June 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.