Tollesbury, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Tollesbury (St Mary), is a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Maldon district, Essex. The village is 7 miles E by N of Maldon railway station. It has a post-office under Kelvedon. The parish includes part of Tiptree-Heath chapelry. There is an Independent chapel.

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
Tollesbury Congregational Church registers reference D/NC 56



Non-Conformist Churches
Independent/Congregational

Poor Law Unions
Maldon 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
Tollesbury on GENUKI

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