Essex parish records online - project

[helvissa]

Update: I've got permission to do East Donyland (Fingringhoe) and Greensted-juxta-Ongar as well.

matron123: well yes, I've found other people's online transcriptions very handy so I knew that it would be worth doing some myself so other people could use them too.

pinkgardengnome: the fiche come from the archives at the Essex Records Office, but in order to gain permission to put them online I had to ask the originating church (who I suppose still own the records in some sense). In all cases, I've had to contact a representative at the church. In the case of St Osyth, they raised the issue at a parish meeting and they gave me permission.

[pinkgardengnome]

Thanks for the reply. I will pass on that to the society, no idea why they didn't know about it then.
Really good luck with all your work.
Kind regards Terri

[helvissa]

I suppose it would depend if they had anyone at the meeting? It's just a formality really.

[coombs]

Keep up the good work. Every little helps in tracking down our ancestors. 

[helvissa]

I see you have Quilters in Essex - I've got lots in St Osyth if you're interested? I've got some Quilters too - I think in St Osyth or Weeley.

[coombs]

Hi

The furthest I have got back is Nathan Jackson Quilter born about 1752 in Rettendon in Essex. I and some other researchers have not yet found a baptism but with a name like that it shouldn't be hard looking in any unindexed parishes.

Ben

[Lisajj]

This is a great project!  I am doing a transcription project just for one church, and that takes an awful lot of time!
If anyone is doing West Hanningfield and the surrounding villages, I'd be really interested in helping if they were on microfiche.

[helvissa]

Ben: there's several Quilters in north-Essex that I've found (and am descended from!). He might be there, maybe?

Lisa: Yes, doesn't it! I do about half an hour to fifteen minutes using the microfiche reader at work in my lunch hour (the perks of working in a library!). Then of course there's the typing up! Actually - I could put your West Hanningfield transcriptions on my site (attributed to you of course), if you wanted to share them? I had an email from someone yesterday who'd found their ancestor in the Weeley baptisms - he was stationed in the barracks there and she hadn't known (and he was baptising a child she hadn't previously known of). She just found it by googling his name and his regiment! It's nice to know people find it useful.

An update on what I've been doing. I've concentrated on finishing off St Osyth, so I've transcribed baptisms and burials 1781-1812 (I've put 1781-1799 online so far), and I've started transcribing marriages 1754-1812 (1754-6 online so far).

Greensted burials: I've transcribed 1813-1911, and 1813 to 1846 are online so far. These are quite interesting as they sometimes include cause of death. The life of an 'ag lab' was quite a perilous one - someone died falling off a wagon of hay!

A-Z surname indexes: Great Bromley baptisms 1735-44 & 1800-12, Weeley baptisms 1813-1824, Weeley marriages 1813-1837

I've just ordered some pre-1812 Wivenhoe fiche so maybe I'll be able to include them in the project too.

[coombs]

Hi

I am also researching the Watty families of Essex. I would think Nathan Jackson Quilter's mother maiden name may have been Jackson or a grandparents maiden name.

Ben