Loughton Essex Family History Guide

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Loughton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1674
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LOUGHTON, a village and a parish in Epping district, Essex.

The village stands on the E side of Epping forest, and on the Stratford and Ongar railway, 1 mile W of the river Roding, and 4 SSW of Epping: consists chiefly of one long street; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post-office under London NE, and a station of the metropolitan police.

The parish comprises 3,170 acres. Real property, £7,971. Pop. in 1851, 1,237; in 1861, 1,527. Houses, 308. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to Waltham abbey. Loughton Hall was a residence of Queen Anne in her father’s lifetime, and was destroyed by fire in 1836.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £5118. Patron, the Rev. J. W. Maitland. The old church stood nearly a mile from the village; and only the chancel of it now remains. The new church stands near the centre of the village; was built in 1846; and is in the Norman style, with a tower.

There are a Baptist chapel, national schools, a British school, and charities £83. The national schools were rebuilt in 1864, and enlarged in 1865; and are in the early English style.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, Loughton – Archives and libraries – Inventories, registers, catalogs ( 1 )
The History of your family
Author: Essex County Council Libraries (England); Waltham Abbey (England); Loughton Library (Essex, England)

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

England, Essex, Loughton – Census – 1851 ( 1 )
Loughton 1851, the village and its people : a reconstruction based on the 1851 census and the tithe map and award
Author: Pohl, Donald J.; Chigwell and Loughton History Society

England, Essex, Loughton – Church history ( 2 )
Come with us and we will surely do you good : the story of the Loughton Union Church, 1813-1973
Author: Lewis, Vivian

Loughton, Essex : ms. notes on the history of the parish
Author: Thompson, Percy; Church of England. Parish Church of Loughton (Essex); Baptist Church (Loughton, Essex)

England, Essex, Loughton – Church records ( 5 )
Births, 1820-1837; burials, 1817-1837
Author: Baptist Church (Loughton, Essex)

Births, 1820-1837; burials, 1817-1837
Author: Baptist Church (Loughton, Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Loughton, 1639-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Loughton (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Loughton, 1800-1871
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Loughton (Essex)

Parish registers for Loughton, 1674-1895
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Loughton (Essex); Essex Record Office

England, Essex, Loughton – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Loughton, Baptist, Essex, Eng

Computer printout of Loughton, Essex, Eng

Parish register printouts of Loughton, Essex, England, christenings, 1674-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Essex, Loughton – Church records – Inventories, registers, catalogs ( 1 )
The History of your family
Author: Essex County Council Libraries (England); Waltham Abbey (England); Loughton Library (Essex, England)

England, Essex, Loughton – Directories ( 2 )
Kelly’s directory of Woodford, Buckhurst Hill, Loughton and Chingford : the work comprises alphabetical lists of streets, private residents & tradesmen and official information; and a visitors’ guide to pleasure and health resorts

Kelly’s Woodford, Buckhurst Hill, Loughton & Chingford Directory : the work comprises alphabetical lists of steets, private residents & tradesmen; and official information; also a new map of the district, divided into half-mile squares; and a visitors’ guide to pleasure and health resorts

England, Essex, Loughton – History ( 2 )
Loughton 1851, the village and its people : a reconstruction based on the 1851 census and the tithe map and award
Author: Pohl, Donald J.; Chigwell and Loughton History Society

Loughton, Essex : ms. notes on the history of the parish
Author: Thompson, Percy; Church of England. Parish Church of Loughton (Essex); Baptist Church (Loughton, Essex)

England, Essex, Loughton – History – Indexes ( 1 )
Loughton-in-Essex : Indices
Author: Waller, William Chapman

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Epping
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Barking, Post-1844 – Epping
  • Poor Law Union: Epping
  • Hundred: Ongar
  • Province: Canterbury