High Easter Essex Family History Guide

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High Easter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1654
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629; 1639; 1800

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EASTER (High), a parish in Dunmow district, Essex; 4½ miles S by W of Dunmow r. station, and 8½ NW of Chelmsford. It has a post-office under Chelmsford.

Acres, 4, 725. Real property, £6, 005. Pop., 947. Houses, 202. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a vicarage annexed to Good Easter, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is ancient.

There are an Independent chapel and a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

EASTER, HIGH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Dunmow, N. division of Essex, 5 miles (S. by W.) from Dunmow; containing 975 inhabitants.

The parish takes its distinguishing epithet from its elevated situation with respect to the parish of Good-Easter. It comprises by computation nearly 5000 acres, of which by far the greater portion is arable, and the remainder meadow and pasture, with 137 acres of wood; the soil of the arable land is tenacious, and produces fine crops: the surface is gently undulated.

The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Good-Easter, and valued in the king’s books at £14. 14. 7.; appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s. The church is a spacious and lofty structure, with a stately tower of stone surmounted by a spire.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, High Easter – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions at St. Mary the Virgin and Congregational Church, High Easter, 1728-1998 : 309 inscriptions including war memorial, 2 inscriptions at Congregational Church
Author: Essex Society for Family History

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

England, Essex, High Easter – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for High Easter, 1629-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Easter (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for High Easter, 1804-1874
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Easter (Essex)

The Parish register books of High Easter

Parish registers for High Easter, 1654-1990
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Easter (Essex); Essex Record Office

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Dunmow
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Dunmow, Post-1844 – Roding
  • Poor Law Union: Chelmsford
  • Hundred: Dunmow
  • Province: Canterbury