Mucking Essex Family History Guide
Mucking is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places in the parish include: Mucking Ford.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1800
Nonconformists include:
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MUCKING, a parish in Orsett district, Essex; adjacent to the Thames, and on the London and Southend railway, ¾ of a mile S by W of Stanford-le-Hope r. station, and 2¾ ESE of Orsett.
It contains the hamlet of Mucking-Ford; and its post town is Romford. Acres, 2, 631; of which 485 are water. Real property, £2, 612. Pop., 253. Houses, 48. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s. A nunnery, a cell to Barking abbey, was formerly here.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £219. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s. The church was recently rebuilt, and has a tower.
There are a parochial school, and charities £11.
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: Orsett
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Barstable, Post-1844 – Orsett
- Poor Law Union: Orsett
- Hundred: Barstable
- Province: Canterbury