Waltham Abbey, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes

Parish History
Waltham-Abbey, or West-Holycross (St Lawrence), is a small town, a township, and a parish, in the district of Edmonton and county of Essex. The town stands on the river Lea, it is 1 mile E of Waltham-Cross railway station, and 12 miles N E of London. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The parish also contains Holyfield, Sewardstone, and Upshire hamlets.

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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Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) See also Waltham St Lawrence and Holy Cross in the OPC database.

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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