Southend St John the Baptist, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Southend St John the Baptist or Southennd, is a small town and a chapelry in Prittle-well parish, Essex. The town stands on the Thames estuary, at the terminus of the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, 3½ miles WNW of Shoeburyness and 3½ S by E of Rochford; it carries on a considerable coasting trade; it communicates much with London, both by railway and by steamers; it also communicates, by steamers, with Gravesend, Rochester, and Sheerness; and has a head post-office, a railway station with telegraph. There is an Independent chapel of 1865, a Wesleyan chapel.

St Johns was the first Parish Church of the town of Southend-on-Sea. Four churches: St Albans, Westcliff, St Marks, Clifftown; All Saints, Queensway and St John's united in the 1970's to form the parish of Southend.

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 See also Prittlewell, Essex for earlier registers and images for All Saints from 1878, St Erkenwald from 1910, Southend Hospital, Cliff Town Congregational Church from 1831, Michael Tomlin Memorial United Methodist Church, Park Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Southend Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, St. Francis and St. John Bosco (mission to All Saints) St. Mark Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church Warrior Square (later Bournemouth Park) Congregational Church York Road Wesleyan Methodist Church

Thorpe Bay Essex Online Parish Clerks( OPC)

Westcliff on Sea Essex Online Parish Clerks OPC)

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
Rochford 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.

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Web sites
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