Myland St Michael, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Mile-End, or Mile-End-St. Michael, or Myland, is a parish in Colchester district, Essex; on the river Colne and on the Great Eastern railway, chiefly N of Colchester railway station, within Colchester borough, and 1¼ miles N of the centre of Colchester town. Post town is, Colchester.

Myland St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.Other places in the parish include: No Man's Land.

The ancient parish of Mile End, a compact area of 2,352 acres, it probably took its name from its original settlement a mile north of Colchester town, but by the late 13th century it was sometimes called Myland. It did not become a separate parish until the 13th century.

From 1841 to 1871 an extra-parochial place of a few acres called 'No Man's Land', on Cock Common in the northeast corner of Mile End next to Ardleigh, was included in Mile End.

Myland is an alternative to the original "Mile End" is a civil parish in Essex, England that is now a suburb of Colchester. The original village was located approximately one mile north of the middleborough, or the centre of the Borough of Colchester. It probably acquired its name from its distance from the centre of Colchester.

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

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
Colchester 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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Web sites
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