Mount Bures Essex Family History Guide

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Mount Bures is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1540
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Strict Baptist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BURES-MOUNT, a parish in Lexden district, Essex; on the river Stour, adjacent to the Sudbury railway, near Bures station, 6 miles S by E of Sudbury. Post Town, Bures, under Colchester.

Acres, 1,404. Real property, £2,479. Pop., 301. Houses, 57. An ancient artificial mound here, about 80 feet high, and of unknown origin, has a base of nearly 1½ acre.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £400. Patron, the Rev. P. Brett.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Essex, Bures-Mount – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bures-Mount, 1629-1631
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bures-Mount (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Bures-Mount, 1800-1885
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bures-Mount (Essex)

Parish registers for Bures-Mount, 1540-1886
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bures-Mount (Essex)

Transcripts of some Essex marriage registers
Author: Baxter, Jack H.

England, Essex, Bures-Mount – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Vestry minutes, 1870-1890
Author: Bures-Mount (Essex)

England, Essex, Bures-Mount – Public records ( 1 )
Vestry minutes, 1870-1890
Author: Bures-Mount (Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Lexden
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Colchester
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Lexden, Post-1846 – Halstead
  • Poor Law Union: Lexden and Winstree
  • Hundred: Lexden
  • Province: Canterbury