Stock Harvard, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
STOCK (All Saints) or Stock Harvard, is a parish, in the union and hundred of Chelmsford, and S division of Essex, it is 3 miles from Ingatestone. The parish is almost surrounded by that of Buttsbury, in which it is supposed to have been formerly a hamlet. The living is a rectory, with that of Ramsden-Bellhouse. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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
Stock Harvard parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office All Saints see also Crondon Park Roman Catholic Chapel, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Stock Congregational Church

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Independent/Congregational

Poor Law Unions

 * Chelmsford 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
Stock on GENUKI

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