Little Waltham, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Waltham (Little) or Little Waltham, is a parish, with a village, in Chelmsford district, Essex; it is 3½ miles N of Chelmsford railway station. It has a post-office under Chelmsford.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Essex Record Office (online records available at Essex Archives Online).

Essex Archives
The Essex Archives has the following church records available:

St. Martin Parish (Church of England)


 * Baptisms: 1538-1629, 1633-1945 (online)
 * Burials: 1539-1953 (online)
 * Marriages 1539-1957 (online), 1957-2003 (originals)
 * Bishop's Transcripts (originals or microfilm), lots of gaps
 * baptisms 1538-1869
 * burials 1539-1868
 * marriages (1539-1837)

Little Waltham Congregational Church


 * Baptisms: 1803-1837 (National Archives), 1841-1833 (originals)
 * Burials: 1823-1837 (National Archives), 1841-1899 (originals)
 * Marriages: 1862-1918 (originals)

Family History Library
Little Waltham (Independent) indices


 * christening extracts (1804-1837)
 * parish register extracts

Original Records


 * Bishop's Transcripts (1800-1869)
 * Births and baptisms of Independent Church (1803-1837)
 * Parish registers for Little Waltham (1538-1875)
 * Congregational Church (1844-1933)

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

 * 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
Little Waltham on GENUKI

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