Parish registers

Parish registers record baptisms, marriages and burials in Church of England parishes. They are still being created today. For links to parishes' official websites and maps of current parish boundaries please see https://www.achurchnearyou.com

Parish registers are essential sources for family history. The Essex Record Office (ERO) holds registers from over 400 parishes, covering the present county of Essex, including Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock, and also those parts of north-east London that used to be in Essex. Most parishes have registers from the 17th or 18th century onwards, but some go back to 1538.

Essex Archives Online includes images of all registers of baptisms, marriages and burials that have been deposited either in the ERO or with our partners at Waltham Forest Archives. It excludes only baptism registers less than 16 years old and marriage registers from after 1957.

Please note that these images are not indexed on our site, except by place and date range. However, Ancestry has created name indexes to most of our images of parish registers, except the very latest ones. Their indexes cover baptisms 1538-1918, marriages 1538-1935, and burials 1538-1994. Ancestry is a subscription site, but you can see it free of charge in the Essex Record Office or in any Essex library. Users of these indexes on Ancestry can click through to Essex Archives Online and buy an emailed copy of any particular indexed image.

This single-image service provided in association with Ancestry is quite separate from our subscription scheme. Subscribers do not have free access to the single-image service. However, if you are intending to subscribe, you may find the indexes useful for identifying the entries that you need in advance. Ancestry's indexes are complete for the years that they cover, but many partial indexes are available elsewhere. For some free examples see FamilySearch or FreeReg.

To find out what registers we hold, and to identify images available, select the first letter of the parish name in the list below, and then the parish and church that you need.

The lists show

all the registers of baptisms, marriages, burials or banns from Anglican or other churches, or from cemeteries, and any transcripts of them, that are available through the ERO, and
the formats in which the records are available: either as digital images, or as microfiches or microfilms, or - if no copy exists - as original documents. Only items marked 'digital images' are available in that form; otherwise, clicking on 'View' will simply show you the catalogue entry for the document.

Until 1812 many parish registers covered more than one type of event. These registers will appear in the lists several times, but with the same reference each time.

To see images of parish registers online, please register and buy a subscription. Images are free to view in the ERO Searchroom.

Select the first letter of the parish:

Select a parish:

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Documents held

Type of document	From	To	Reference	Format
Baptism register	1830	1863	D/P 597/1/1	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Baptism register	1863	1878	D/P 597/1/2	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1878	1888	D/P 597/1/3	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1888	1891	D/P 597/1/4	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1891	1894	D/P 597/1/5	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1894	1897	D/P 597/1/6	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1897	1899	D/P 597/1/7	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1899	1901	D/P 597/1/8	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1901	1903	D/P 597/1/9	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1903	1905	D/P 597/1/10	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Baptism register	1905	1907	D/P 597/1/11	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Baptism register	1907	1911	D/P 597/1/12	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Baptism register	1911	1914	D/P 597/1/13	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Baptism register	1914	1917	D/P 597/1/14	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1917	1919	D/P 597/1/15	Digital images. Microfiche (1)	View
Baptism register	1919	1920	D/P 597/1/16	Digital images. Microfiche (1)	View
Baptism register	1920	1921	D/P 597/1/17	Digital images. Microfiche (1)	View
Baptism register	1921	1924	D/P 597/1/18	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1924	1928	D/P 597/1/19	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1928	1931	D/P 597/1/20	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1931	1935	D/P 597/1/21	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1935	1938	D/P 597/1/22	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1938	1944	D/P 597/1/23	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1944	1948	D/P 597/1/24	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Baptism register	1948	1951	D/P 597/1/25	Digital images. Microfiche (1)	View
Baptism register	1951	1958	D/P 597/1/26	Digital images. Microfiche (1)	View
Baptism register	1958	1968	D/P 597/1/27	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Burial register	1830	1860	D/P 597/1/56	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Burial register	1864	1865	D/P 597/1/56	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Burial register	1872	1872	D/P 597/1/56	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Marriage register	1845	1865	D/P 597/1/28	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1865	1874	D/P 597/1/29	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1874	1881	D/P 597/1/30	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1881	1886	D/P 597/1/31	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1886	1890	D/P 597/1/32	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1890	1893	D/P 597/1/33	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1893	1896	D/P 597/1/34	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1896	1899	D/P 597/1/35	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1899	1901	D/P 597/1/36	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1901	1904	D/P 597/1/37	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1904	1908	D/P 597/1/38	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1908	1911	D/P 597/1/39	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1911	1915	D/P 597/1/40	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1915	1919	D/P 597/1/41	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1919	1921	D/P 597/1/42	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1921	1924	D/P 597/1/43	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1924	1927	D/P 597/1/44	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1927	1930	D/P 597/1/45	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1930	1933	D/P 597/1/46	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1933	1935	D/P 597/1/47	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1935	1937	D/P 597/1/48	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1937	1939	D/P 597/1/49	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1939	1942	D/P 597/1/50	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1942	1947	D/P 597/1/51	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1947	1952	D/P 597/1/52	Digital images. Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1952	1959	D/P 597/1/53	Digital images 1952-1957. Microfiche 1958-1959	View
Marriage register	1959	1968	D/P 597/1/54	Microfiche (6)	View
Marriage register	1968	1977	D/P 597/1/55	Microfiche (3)	View
Marriage register	1984	1992	D/P 597/1/78	Original register	View
Marriage register	2007	2008	D/P 597/1/78	Original register	View
Marriage register	2008	2009	D/P 597/1/79	Original register	View
Banns register	1878	1888	D/P 597/1/57	Microfiche (3)	View
Banns register	1897	1902	D/P 597/1/58	Microfiche (4)	View
Banns register	1902	1907	D/P 597/1/59	Microfiche (4)	View
Banns register	1907	1910	D/P 597/1/60	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1910	1914	D/P 597/1/61	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1914	1916	D/P 597/1/62	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1922	1924	D/P 597/1/63	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1929	1932	D/P 597/1/64	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1932	1934	D/P 597/1/65	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1934	1936	D/P 597/1/66	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1939	1942	D/P 597/1/67	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1942	1947	D/P 597/1/68	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1947	1950	D/P 597/1/69	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1950	1952	D/P 597/1/70	Microfiche (1)	View
Banns register	1952	1956	D/P 597/1/71	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1961	1966	D/P 597/1/72	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1966	1972	D/P 597/1/73	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1972	1976	D/P 597/1/74	Microfiche (1)	View
Banns register	1983	1999	D/P 597/1/80	Original	View
Bishop's Transcripts of baptisms	1830	1843	D/CR 168	Original	View
Bishop's Transcripts of burials	1830	1843	D/CR 168	Original	View
Transcript of burials	1830	1872	T/R 269/14/14	On shelf in searchroom	View