St Osyth, Essex Genealogy

Guide to St Osyth, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
St Osyth or Osyth (St.), is a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Tendring district, Essex. The village is on a creek of the River Colne, 1¾ of a mile N of the coast, 2¾ miles SE of Brightling sea railway station, and 11 miles S E of Colchester; it was once known to the Saxons as Chich and has a post-office under Colchester. The parish contains also the hamlets of New Frowick and Wigborough Wick. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Swedenborgians.

Civil Registration
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
St Osyth parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)
 * Swedenborgian/New Jerusalem/New Church
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions

 * Tendring Poor Law Union, Essex

Probate Records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
St Osyth on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)