Great Dunmow, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Great Dunmow or Dunmow (Great), is a small town and a parish in Dunmow district, Essex. The town stands on an eminence on the right bank of the River Chelmer, adjacent to the Bishop Stortford and Braintree railway, at the Junction of the Ongar line, 8½ miles W of Braintree. There is a church, three dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel.

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
Great Dunmow 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)
 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Census Records

 * 1851 Census returns for both Great and Little Dunmow are missing.

Poor Law Union

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

Great Dunmow on GENUKI