Manningtree Essex Family History Guide
Manningtree is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Essex, created in 1840 from a chapelry in Mistley Ancient Parish and Bradfield Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1695
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1801
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MANNINGTREE, a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict in Tendring district, Essex.
The town stands on the navigable river Stour, at the boundary with Suffolk, adjacent to the junction of the two lines of the Great Eastern railway toward Ipswich and Harwich, 8¾ miles NE of Colchester; extends partly into the parishes of Mistley and Lawford.
It was known at Domesday as Sciddinchon; is irregularly built, yet contains some good houses; carries on a considerable trade in brewing, malting, and the sale of corn; had formerly a considerable shipping trade, which declined in consequence of greater facility of transit afforded by railway.
It is still a considerable centre for country traffic; and has a head post-office, two railway stations with telegraph, two banking offices, two chief inns, a weekly market on Thursday, a fair on Whit-Thursday, a corn-exchange, a church, Independent and Wesleyan chapels, a mechanics’ literary and scientific institution, and a national school.
The corn-exchange was built in 1865; is of white brick, with stone dressings; has a front with tetrastyle Corinthian portico, and two circular-headed windows; contains thirty stands; and is used also for public meetings, lectures, and concerts. A new cattle-market, with sheds and pens, is in a back lane, near the corn-exchange.
The church was built in 1616, and enlarged in 1839; and contains a monument to Thomas Osmond, who suffered Martyrdom in the town in 1515. The mechanics’ institution was built in 1849, is in the Tudor style, and has a library of about 1,000 volumes. Shakespeare speaks of a “roasted Manningtree ox with a pudding in its pouch;” and the author of Hudibras alludes to a witch-finder, M. Hopkins, who lived in Manningtree.
The parish comprises 30 acres of land and 85 of water. Real property, £3,765. Pop. in 1851, 1,176; in 1861, 881. Houses, 221. The manor belonged to Adeliza, the half-sister of William the Conqueror; was afterwards given to Canon-Leigh nunnery; passed to the Rainsworths; and belongs now to T. G. Kensit, Esq. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Mistley, in the diocese of Rochester.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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.
DEATH, William, of Manningtree, co. Essex, mariner, & Letitia Bright, of Londonderry, Ireland, sp., at Gosport, 9 Dec., 1740.
LEWIS, Francis, of Manningtree, co. Essex, master mariner, 21, b., & Mary Little,
of Portsea, 21, sp., at P., 11 Apl., 1814. James Little, of the s., gent., bondsman.
LEWIS, James, of Manningtree, co. Essex, gent., 21, b., & Mary Little, of Portsea, 21, sp., at P., 5 Oct., 1812. James Little, of the s., gent., bondsman.
Source: Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Tendring
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Colchester
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Tendring, Post-1846 – Ardleigh
- Poor Law Union: Tendring
- Hundred: Tendring
- Province: Canterbury