Saffron Walden, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Saffron-Walden, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Essex. The town stands at the terminus of a branch railway of the Great Eastern, 2 mileslong from a junction at Wendon, it is1 mile E of the river Granton, and 44½ miles N N E of London; there are five dissenting chapels, and a public cemetery. The sub-district contains also the parishes of Wendens-Ambo, Littlebury, Little Chesterford, Great Chesterford, Strethall, Wendon-Lofts, Elmdon, and Chrishall. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Newport, containing the parishes of Newport, Debden, Widdington, Quendon, Rickling, Clavering, Wicken-Bonant, Arkesden, and Langley; and the sub-district of Radwinter, containing the parishes of Radwinter, Wimbish, Hempstead, Great Sampford, Little Sampford, and the greaterpart of Ashdon. The places of worship, in 1851, were Church of England, Independents, Baptists, Quakers, with Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free-Thinking Christians.

Saffron Walden St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient parish within the market town in Essex. Other places in the parish include: Audley End, Little Walden, and North End.

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
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Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Mary the Virgin See also Abbey lane Congregational church, High Street (formerly Upper Meeting) Church, Hill Street (formerly Little Meeting) Church, London Road Strict Baptist church and Saffron Walden (Society of Friends)

Contributor please create separate and linked pages for each faith and church for the town.

Census records
Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Saffron Walden 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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