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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Essex => Topic started by: Indigogirl on Sunday 05 June 11 15:16 BST (UK)
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Hi
I am hoping to find more info for a marraige between Theodosia Jones and Magnus Mariner in Upminster in 1791. From what I can establish there was just one church St Laurence in 1791.
The Essex Record Office points to this being the source:
Reference Code D/P 117/1/4
Dates of Creation 1754-1812
Extent 1 volume
Title [Marriage register]
Date From 1754
Date To 1812
I wondered if anyone might have access to either the ERO or the marriages register for St laurence please?
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Hi never like to see a posting getting no replies
Number 214 St Lawrence marriages Magnus Mariner bachelor married Theodoria Jones widow
banns read 13,20,27 march 1791 marriage took place 5th May 1791 witness Sophia Hamilton and James Chapple.
Best Regards
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Thats absolutely brilliant.!!
Thanks so much
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Hi there!
I am a 9th generation descendant of Magnus Mariner (down from William's side who was the father of George who is my ancestor) and was wondering if there were any pictures available of the marriage record that notes the matrimony of both Magnus and Theodosia? I would really appreciate any help offered, thank you very much.
Regards,
Jordyn.
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Hi Jordyn
This a very old post,as you can see from my post this had not had any replies so as I was going to the ERO I did the look up,well the world has moved on and the parish records are online now for Eseex,it is pay to view but if you have a number of things to look up is a lot cheaper than going to the ERO at Chelmsford,of course if you do go there are original records like wills and the like to view,I suppose you might be able to contact Indigogirl who started the look up,I wish you well in your search.
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Thank you so much! I am based in New Zealand so physically accessing them is a little difficult for me but if they are online, that definitely makes it much easier to pay for than having to pay for an airfare :) I hope Essex parish records are easy to locate, fingers crossed! Again, thank you so much!
Also, if you happen to have the web address for the Essex records, that would be fantastic but if not, this has still been very helpful in locating bits and pieces of my ancestor's family. THANK YOU!
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Hi well if you google Essex Records Chelmsford their web site explains things,but the cost is £10 for 24 hrs and £20 for 7 days, the web site is SEAX,i thought you might be some distance away,as I say before it was possible to access the parish records on line I used to do look ups at the record office,now well people like yourself can look the records up,you can download the images,it is best if you know where you want to look for records,get a map of Essex so if you look at a parish and find nothing then you will know the nearest other parishes to look up,it will not take you long to work out that some of the parish records have deaths,bap,and marriages in so there might be 120 images but by looking at whats in the records you know that you need to go to at least the 70th image before you get to marriages,I am sure you will work it out.
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When you are looking for records, you might get a registration district rather than a town. You can Google 'registration district of ...' And type in the town/area. It will give you all the parishes that would relate to the district you are looking for. Between this and having another tab open with a google map of the area you are looking for, it will help you to find what you are looking for. Some of the records on SEAX go back to the 1500s!
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Oh my goodness, thank you very much. It's a little difficult for me to get my head around this system of districts with registrations, I've been looking at the numbers with a blank face until having just read your post and now I think it should be a little easier. Fingers crossed a Hobbit can get the hang of it :)
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You can always post back on here if you have any queries. Essex records are great. I started on 24 hours, then a month, then annual. It's addictive!
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Oh my goodness, thank you very much. It's a little difficult for me to get my head around this system of districts with registrations, I've been looking at the numbers with a blank face until having just read your post and now I think it should be a little easier. Fingers crossed a Hobbit can get the hang of it :)
GenUKI is very helpful with regard to parishes and districts!
There is a downloadable PDF file of parishes, and their corresponding Registration Districts over the years (there have been many changes!):
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/index.html
And a list of Registration Districts in Essex:
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/ess.html
If you click on a District name, you will get a list of parishes within that district.
Basically, in 1837, with the onset of Civil Registration, all parishes were grouped into Registration Districts, with a Superintendent Registrar in charge of each district.
Some districts comprised parishes from more than 1 county - so beware of that! ;D
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You can also use FreeBMD ,if you find a birth ,marriage or death,it will give you the registration district and if you click on that it will have a list of all the places in that registration district,also as you seem new to this,you can if you find a marriage find all the children from it,by using FreeBMD correctly,and all at no cost,which was why we started it some years ago,the transcribing of the records is still ongoing although I no longer do that.
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Hi
St Laurence is up the road to me so if you find a burial and need any photos of anything let me know and I will go with my trusty camera to see what I can find. You may find something St Andrews Hornchurch and St Edwards Romford all three are very old churches and within the same area and I have found my ancestors in all three. Romford library also has a lot of BMD info on these churches let me know if there is anything I can look up for you. This goes to anyone else that I can help.
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Without doubt the Essex records online is a big step forward for people,it is a pity so few other counties have followed suit,the numbers from Essex are impressive,if I remember they started it in the May and had the total cost of doing it back by the November,and the photos of the early records are so much better than the micro fiche we had before,it was giant step forward,I would like the ERO to fall in line with other record offices about records within the 100 year rule at the moment if you want to look at a school record from 1920 you cannot, if you use Cambridgeshire records all you do is sign a document saying it is for your own use and is for you family history.