Matching Essex Family History Guide
Matching is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places in the parish include: Ovesham.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
- White Roding
- High Laver
- Abbess Roding
- Harlow St Mary and St Hugh
- Little Laver
- Sheering
- Hatfield Broad Oak
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MATCHING, a village and a parish in Epping district, Essex. The village stands 3¾ miles E of Harlow r. station, and 8 NE of Epping.
The parish contains also the hamlet of Ovesham; and has a post-office, of the name of Matching-Green, under Harlow. Acres, 2,384. Real property, £3,996. Pop., 665. Houses, 140. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the Essex hounds.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £160. Patrons, the Trustees of Felstead school, on the nomination of the Bishop of Rochester. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with embattled tower; and was recently in disrepair. A chapel once stood in Ovesham.
There is a Church school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Epping
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Harlow
- Poor Law Union: Epping
- Hundred: Harlow
- Province: Canterbury