High Ongar Essex Family History Guide

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

Other places in the parish include: Astelyns.

Alternative names:

  • Great Ongar
  • High Ongar
  • High Onger
  • Little Ongar
  • Old Ongar
  • Ongar

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ONGAR (High), a village and a parish in Ongar district, Essex.

The village stands on the river Roding, 1¼ mile NE of Ongar r. station; is sometimes called Old O., Great O., and Little O.; and has a post-office, of the name of High Ongar, under Brentwood.

The parish contains also the hamlet of Astelyns, and comprises 4, 510 acres. Real property, £8, 701. Pop., 1, 177. The property is much divided. Ongar Park and Forest Hallare chief residences. Astelyns House was an ancient seat, in which the Duke of Norfolk is said to have taken shelter when fleeing from Queen Elizabeth; and is now a farm-house.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £1, 382. Patron, the Rev. H. J. Earle. The church is good; and has a brick tower, re-built in 1858, at a cost of £800.

There are alms-houses, and other charities £8.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ONGAR, HIGH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Ongar, S. division of Essex, ¾ of a mile (N. E.) from Ongar; containing 1240 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £39. 10. 5.; net income, £1282; patron and incumbent, the Rev. Henry John Earle. The church is lofty and spacious, with a handsome doorway.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Registers

Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences 1689 to 1837

The following have been extracted from Allegations for Marriage Licences in the county of Hampshire. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.

ELDERTON, Charles-Harben, of All Saints, Southampton , stonemason, 21, b., &
Isabella Finch, of High Ongar, co. Essex, 21, sp., at A. S., 20 Aug., 1808.

Source: Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Essex, High Ongar – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for High Ongar, 1639-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Ongar (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for High Ongar, 1800-1873
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of High Ongar (Essex)

Administration

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