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	1634	1707	D/P 50/1/1	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Register of baptisms	1707	1787	D/P 50/1/2	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of baptisms	1788	1812	D/P 50/1/3	Digital images. Microfiche (5)	View
Register of baptisms	1813	1835	D/P 50/1/7	Digital images. Microfiche (1)	View
Register of baptisms	1836	1869	D/P 50/1/8	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of baptisms	1869	1889	D/P 50/1/9	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of baptisms	1889	1907	D/P 50/1/10	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of baptisms	1907	1928	D/P 50/1/19	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of baptisms	1928	1959	D/P 50/1/20	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of baptisms	1959	1996	D/P 50/1/21	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of burials	1634	1683	D/P 50/1/1	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Register of burials	1707	1787	D/P 50/1/2	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of burials	1788	1812	D/P 50/1/3	Digital images. Microfiche (5)	View
Register of burials	1813	1854	D/P 50/1/11	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of burials	1855	1885	D/P 50/1/12	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of burials	1885	1946	D/P 50/1/13	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of marriages	1634	1706	D/P 50/1/1	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Register of marriages	1707	1754	D/P 50/1/2	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of marriages	1754	1774	D/P 50/1/4	Digital images. Microfiche (5)	View
Register of marriages	1774	1803	D/P 50/1/5	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of marriages	1803	1812	D/P 50/1/6	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of marriages	1813	1837	D/P 50/1/14	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Register of marriages	1837	1895	D/P 50/1/15	Digital images. Microfiche (5)	View
Register of marriages	1895	1919	D/P 50/1/22	Digital images. Microfiche (4)	View
Register of marriages	1919	1925	D/P 50/1/16	Digital images. Microfiche (2)	View
Register of marriages	1925	1942	D/P 50/1/17	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Register of marriages	1942	1955	D/P 50/1/23	Digital images. Microfiche (3)	View
Register of marriages	1955	1966	D/P 50/1/24	Digital images (partial). Microfiche	View
Register of marriages	1966	1975	D/P 50/1/31	Microfiche (3)	View
Register of marriages	1975	1986	D/P 50/1/25	Microfiche (3)	View
Register of marriages	1986	1992	D/P 50/1/26	Microfiche (3)	View
Banns register	1774	1803	D/P 50/1/5	Microfiche (4)	View
Banns register	1803	1817	D/P 50/1/1A	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1823	1854	D/P 50/1/18	Microfiche (3)	View
Banns register	1922	1942	D/P 50/1/29	Microfiche (2)	View
Banns register	1942	1951	D/P 50/1/30	Microfiche (1)	View
Banns register	1974	1980	D/P 50/1/27	Microfiche (1)	View
Banns register	1980	1990	D/P 50/1/28	Microfiche (2)	View
Bishop's Transcripts of baptisms	1813	1838	D/CR 427	Original	View
Bishop's Transcripts of burials	1813	1838	D/CR 427	Original	View
Bishop's Transcripts of marriages	1813	1836	D/CR 427	Original	View
Census	1811	1811	D/P 50/18/10	Original	View
Monumental inscriptions	1634	1996	T/P 562/4	Original	View
Monumental inscriptions	1709	1996	T/P 562/1-2	Original
Monumental inscriptions	1965	1996	T/P 562/3	Garden of Rest. Original	View
Transcript of baptisms	1634	1812	T/R 274/9	Original	View
Transcript of baptisms	1634	1812	T/R 168/18	Microfilm in searchroom	View
Transcript of baptisms	1813	1835	T/R 274/1	Original	View
Transcript of burials	1634	1812	T/R 168/18	Microfilm in searchroom	View
Transcript of burials	1634	1812	T/R 274/11	Original	View
Transcript of burials	1813	1865	T/R 269/12/20	On shelf in searchroom	View
Transcript of marriages	1634	1837	T/R 274/10	Original	View
Transcript of marriages	1634	1837	Phillimore vol. III pp.77-130	Searchroom locked cupboard
Transcript of marriages	1634	1754	T/R 168/18	Microfilm in searchroom	View
Transcript of marriages	1801	1851	T/R 203/68	On shelf in searchroom	View