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What's New in Essex Family History?
This month the forum has seen postings on the following family names Hart, Osborne, Rigby and Stonnard.
Several hundred more names have been added to the site with listings for the District Clergy in 1817 and 1829, subsidy roll listing for St Lawrence in the 1600's and most importantly the voters list for 1826.
The voters list contains the names of 250 male residents who were entitled to vote in the 1826 Parliamentary election.
Before compulsory registration of Births,Marriages and Deaths in 1837 many of the existing records related to the gentry with the lives of the majority of the population going unrecorded.
A notable exception to this are records work houses that were speread throughout the UK from the latter part of the 1700's and by the mid 1800's were found in most villages due to the various Poor Laws.
These institutions they were bound with bureaucracy that proves a treasure trove for family historians.
Records of the inmates including full names, dates of birth and for children parents details were kept on entry and discharge as well as being included in regular returns. Each establishment would keep minute books of Overseers and Governers meetings that would provide details of incidents in the inmates lives.
If you live or can get to Essex then the Essex Records Office has access to the Workhouse records.
If you have access to census information you can search for workhouses. An example is click on 1871 census then open up the advanced search box, then in residence show Essex as Country and Maldon as Town and in the keyword box put workhouse. This will bring up the 217 inmates in alphabetical order.
If you can't get to Essex you can buy transcriptions for £1.50 plus p&p from Northumberland FHS .
The best web site is workhouses.org.uk which contains details and links to all thinks workhouse
Featured Family History Site For May
Essex Online Parish Clerks
are part of a worldwide group of volunteers who endeavour to provide free information about a parish,
its people and history, to assist family historians.
Each Essex OPC has a mandate to collect,
collate and compile reference material for parishes throughout the county in the form of
transcripts, extracts, abstracts, and indexes of original source records
To date 14 English Counties have a Parish Clerk system and within Essex 74 parishes have a parish clerk.
Online Parish Clerks are nothing to do with Parish Councils but represent volunteers who have local knowledge and have access to local information that will help you unravel stick parts of your family tree.
An the best bit - the service is Free!
What's New in Essex Country Life?
New material on Essex Country life includes a section on the use of greetings cards and some pictures of used greetings cards from about 1900.
ECL also looks at those 'new fangled' inventions that changed the lived of people in the late 1800's using images and descriptions from cigarette cards of that era.
Farming pages have also been added with graphic descriptions of farming life, wages and conditions taken from texts of the mid 1800's
Outlying Southminster in about 1910
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May 2008
Essex Country Life
Eastern Essex Family History Forum
Entries on the Essex Family History Forum are widely read by people interested in family history in this area.
If you make an entry with a family name etc you may well hear from someone else with an interest in that name.
And its FREE
When viewing census entries always check who else is living at the address. Lodgers, visitors etc were often relatives whilst children were often cared for on behalf of deceased or ill relatives and in some cases illegitimate children of others.
Checking these names in earlier or later census's may lead to another branch of your family.
Online Family Trees are a great help to FH research.
BUT
beware as many contain misleading information.
Treat online trees as indicators but be prepared to check each of the entries yourself as sadly some people seem to gather likely names and jump to conclusions when preparing family trees.
Most people use software such as Family Tree Maker to keep their family history records.
Make use of the notes page for each entry to records as the information that you have on that person and the source so you can find it again.
Sadly I failed to do this when I started and 8,000 family records later I have records that I cannot fully source.
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