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. The 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 is quite separate from our subscription scheme. Subscribers do not have free access to the click through service, but they may also find the indexes useful for identifying the entries that they need.

Many partial indexes are available elsewhere. For some free examples see FamilySearch or FreeReg. Other indexes, such as the National Burial Index, may be available on CD or by subscription online.

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:

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Documents held

Type of document	From	To	Reference	Format
Register of baptisms	1834	1864	D/P 601/1/1	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1864	1875	D/P 601/1/2	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1875	1882	D/P 601/1/3	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1882	1886	D/P 601/1/4	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1886	1891	D/P 601/1/5	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1891	1897	D/P 601/1/6	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1897	1902	D/P 601/1/7	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1902	1908	D/P 601/1/8	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1908	1913	D/P 601/1/9	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1913	1917	D/P 601/1/10	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1917	1922	D/P 601/1/11	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1922	1926	D/P 601/1/12	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1926	1932	D/P 601/1/13	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of baptisms	1932	1939	D/P 601/1/14	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of burials	1835	1912	D/P 601/1/40	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of burials	1915	1915	D/P 601/1/40	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of burials	1922	1922	D/P 601/1/40	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1844	1860	D/P 601/1/15	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1860	1868	D/P 601/1/16	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1868	1875	D/P 601/1/17	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1875	1882	D/P 601/1/18	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1882	1888	D/P 601/1/19	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1888	1893	D/P 601/1/20	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1893	1898	D/P 601/1/21	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1898	1902	D/P 601/1/22	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1902	1907	D/P 601/1/23	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1907	1912	D/P 601/1/24	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1912	1915	D/P 601/1/25	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1915	1918	D/P 601/1/26	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1918	1920	D/P 601/1/27	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1920	1923	D/P 601/1/28	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1923	1926	D/P 601/1/29	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1926	1930	D/P 601/1/30	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1930	1933	D/P 601/1/31	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1933	1936	D/P 601/1/32	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1936	1939	D/P 601/1/33	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1939	1941	D/P 601/1/34	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1941	1945	D/P 601/1/35	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1945	1949	D/P 601/1/36	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1949	1953	D/P 601/1/37	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1953	1956	D/P 601/1/38	Digital images. Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1956	1960	D/P 601/1/39	Digital images 1956-1957; microfiche 1958-1960	View
Bishop's Transcripts of baptisms	1834	1843	D/CR 169	Many gaps in years. Original	View
Bishop's Transcripts of burials	1835	1843	D/CR 169	Many gaps in years. Original	View