Essex parish records online - project

[geno500]

Hi  just caught this thread,pleased you are putting these records online,I noticed somebody asked if you were going to put the Catholic records online,you would be a miracle worker if you did as all the parish records are still at the local church,there are no Catholic records at SEAX .

[helvissa]

Hello,

I haven't been on here for a while (I had a bit of a tantrum - oh dear!).

I'm changing the way I'm doing the transcriptions now so that I'm putting them all on FreeREG (my own site capsized and I lost some of the work I did... most annoying!).

I'm mainly concentrating on the Tendring district because my own family tree has led me there, and I've put on FreeREG transcriptions for the following places:

Great Horkesley
Greensted-juxta-Ongar (burials)
Harwich (marriages)
Kirby-Le-Soken
St Osyth
Tendring
Weeley
Wix 

I'm about to start Thorpe and Great Oakley.

I've started a new site, called www.essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk (a long url, but heck, that's what's on the site!). I'm not putting the transcriptions on there (I'd have to reformat them and there's 1,000s of them! So it'd be time-consuming) but I *am* going to put up surname indexes, so for example, if you're looking for the Littlewood family, you'll find out that they lived in (or were associated with) Tendring. It should help whether you choose then to search the database at FreeREG or if you decide to comb through the scans on SEAX.

I'm also putting on there transcriptions of wills, settlement certificates, examinations, that sort of thing, interesting historical stories (like on Weeley Barracks, the Wix poisoning cases of the mid 1800s, unusual things from parish registers like ag labs struck by lightening and polydactyl babies) and then the beginnings of a Nunn one-name study. I might also put up transcriptions of some pre-1841 Essex censuses.

Regarding the Catholic registers, I don't have any plans to transcribe those - sorry! I'm just doing the ones which I have access to either online or on microfiche. I live in Birmingham so I've never actually been to ERO, but I will one day.

[MissySoo]

Hi Helvissa,

I came across your post and just wanted to say thank you in advance for all your hard work.  I'm sure it will be greatly appreciated by those of us not able to travel to the records office and that have been frustrated in our searches for Tendring district information online.

Soo 

[helvissa]

That's ok! I've found other people's transcriptions websites quite helpful, so I wanted to help other people too and share the research I've done.

[Lisajj]

Yeah,  thanks from me too. I'm doing some parish register transcription too, but now I have a six month old daughter, things have slowed down somewhat. Thanks for taking the time and effort to help us. I can't wait for you to do the parishes I need.
:-)

[helvissa]

That's cool! Which parishes are you interested in?

[Lisajj]

Thaxted, West Hanningfield, Ramsden Bellhouse and the villages inbetween. But mainly the first two.

:-)

[beales999]

As a newcomer where can I see the Gt Bromley marriage records
I have looked at "helvissa.com" but I only see 3 listed for 1809.
Are all of the parish records you have so far documented on the Helvissa web site

alan

[helvissa]

Hi Alan,

I've got rid of that website - the transcriptions are now on www.freereg.org.uk where you can search by surname. It's for the years 1800-1812. However, as there's not that many entries for that period, here's the Excel version. It should be fairly obvious which column means what:

http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/ESSGBRBA1.xls

Hope that helps,
Helen.