Hazeleigh Essex Family History Guide

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Hazeleigh is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Alternative names: Haseley

Parish church: St. Nicholas

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1589
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629; 1839; 1800

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HAZELEIGH, a parish in Maldon district, Essex; 2½ miles SW of Maldon r. station. Post-town, Maldon.

Acres, 1,630. Real property, £1,397. Pop., 106. Houses, 30. The manor-house, called the Hall, is now a farm-house. A stone coffin, about 6¾ feet long, containing a female skeleton, was dug up in a field here in 1838. The parish is a meet for the Essex Union hounds.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £258. Patrons, H. S. Blake and B. Kerr, Esqs. The church is a primitive structure, chiefly of timber.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HAZELEIGH, or Haseley (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Maldon, hundred of Dengie, S. division of Essex, 2¾ miles (S. S. W.) from Maldon; containing 131 inhabitants.

The parish comprises by computation 900 acres, of which 700 are arable, 130 pasture, and 70 woodland and plantations. Haseley Hall, the ancient manor-house, is situated near the church.

The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £4. 13. 4., and in the patronage of H. S. Blake and B. Kerr, Esqrs.; net income, £258. The church is of timber frame-work and plaster.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Essex, Hazeleigh – Church history ( 1 )
Ruined and disused churches in Essex : 4. Hazeleigh

England, Essex, Hazeleigh – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hazeleigh, 1629-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hazeleigh (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Hazeleigh, 1800-1875
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hazeleigh (Essex)

Parish register transcripts for Hazeleigh, 1575-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hazeleigh (Essex)

Parish register transcripts, 1589-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hazeleigh (Essex)

Parish registers for Hazeleigh, 1584-1952
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hazeleigh (Essex); Essex Record Office

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

Parish register printouts of Hazeleigh, Essex, England, christenings, 1573-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Essex, Hazeleigh – Manors ( 1 )
Rent roll of the manor of Hazeleigh, Essex, 1661-1706
Author: Manor of Hazeleigh (Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Maldon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Dengie, Post-1844 – Maldon
  • Poor Law Union: Maldon
  • Hundred: Dengie
  • Province: Canterbury