Great Canfield Essex Family History Guide

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Great Canfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1800

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CANFIELD (Great), a parish in Dunmow district, Essex; on the river Roding, 2 miles S of the Bishop-Stortford, Dunmow, and Braintree railway, and 3½ SW of Dunmow. It has a post-office under Chelmsford.

Acres, 2,472. Real property, £3,575. Pop., 468. Houses, 115. The property is subdivided. Canfield House is the seat of the Barnards. There are remains of a moated castle, built by the De Veres.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £140. Patron, J. M. Wilson, Esq. The church is tolerable; and has two brasses of the 16th century.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CANFIELD, GREAT, a parish, in the union and hundred of Dunmow, N. division of Essex, 5 miles (S. W.) from Dunmow; containing 496 inhabitants.

The parish obtained the appellation of Canfield ad Castrum, from a castle supposed to have been founded here by the De Veres, but of which there are no remains. It comprises 2471a. 3r. 6p.; the soil is fertile, and the surrounding country is agreeable, and in some parts enriched with wood.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £13; net income, £140; patron and impropriator, J. M. Wilson, Esq. The church is a small ancient edifice, with a tower of stone.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, Great Canfield – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Canfield, Great and Little, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Essex, Great Canfield – Church records ( 7 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Great Canfield, 1639-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Great Canfield, 1800-1870
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

Marriage transcripts for Great Canfield, 1538-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

Parish chest materials, 1618, 1783-1900
Author: Great Canfield (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

Parish register transcripts, 1538-1778
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

Parish registers for Great Canfield, 1538-1953
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex); Essex Record Office

Transcripts of some Essex marriage registers
Author: Baxter, Jack H.

England, Essex, Great Canfield – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Great Canfield, Essex, Eng

Parish register printouts of Great Canfield, Essex, England, christenings, 1538-1778
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Essex, Great Canfield – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1618, 1783-1900
Author: Great Canfield (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

England, Essex, Great Canfield – Schools ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1618, 1783-1900
Author: Great Canfield (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

England, Essex, Great Canfield – Taxation ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1618, 1783-1900
Author: Great Canfield (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

England, Essex, Great Canfield – Voting registers ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1618, 1783-1900
Author: Great Canfield (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Great Canfield (Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Dunmow
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Dunmow
  • Poor Law Union: Dunmow
  • Hundred: Dunmow
  • Province: Canterbury