Halstead, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes

Parish History
Halstead, is a town, a parish, a sub district, and a district, in Essex. The town stands on a gentle acclivity, adjacent to the river Colne, and to the Colne Valley railway, 14 miles NW of Colchester. There ar two chapels for Independents, two for Baptists, and one for Quakers. The parish also contains the hamlet of Greenstead Green. Holy Trinity was constituted a separate chapelry in 1844. Greenstead Green also is a separate chapelry. The sub-district contains the parishes of Gosfield, Earls-Colne, White-Colne, Colne-Engaine, Pebmarsh, Little Maplestead, and Great Maplestead. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Hedingham, containing the parishes of Sible-Hedingham, Castle-Hedingham, Little Yeldham, Great Yeldham, Tilbury, Ridgwell, Stambourne, and Toppesfield.

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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Census records
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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

Web sites
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