Matching, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Matching (St Mary the Virgin), is a village and a parish in Epping district, Essex. The village is 3¾ miles E of Harlow railway station and 8 miles NE of Epping. The parish also contains the hamlet of Ovesham and has a post office by the name of Matching Green, under Harlow.

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
Matching 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)
 * Independent/Congregational

Poor Law Unions

 * Epping Poor Law Union, Essex

Church House, Matching Green, recorded in 1668, was said in 1768 to have been given for the repair of the church. In the 18th century it was the Cock alehouse, the rent of which was often applied to poor relief. It still belonged to the church in 1843. In 1981 it was a private house, Lone Pine Cottage.

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
Matching on GENUKI

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