Navestock Essex Family History Guide
Navestock is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places in the parish include: Navestock Side, Navestock Heath, Cuddlesmere Green, and Horseman Side.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Stanford Rivers
- Kelvedon Hatch
- Stapleford Abbotts
- Havering-atte-Bower
- Stapleford Tawney
- Romford
- South Weald
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NAVESTOCK, a village and a parish in Ongar district, Essex. The village, which consists of four scattered hamlets, Navestock Side, Horseman Side, Cuddlesmere Green, and Navestock Heath, stands near the river Roding, 5 miles SSW of Ongar r. station, and 6¼ NNE of Romford; and has a post-office under Romford. Acres, 4, 329. Real property, £6, 417. Pop., 928. Houses, 178. The property is much subdivided.
The manor was given by King Edgar to St. Paul’s cathedral, and by Queen Mary to the ancestor of Earl Waldegrave; and, with Navestock Park, belongs now to the Dowager Countess of Waldegrave. Dudbrook House, the seat of the Countess, Navestock Hall, Abbotswick House, and Bois Hall, are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £424. Patron, Trinity College, Oxford. The church is large and good; and consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with wooden tower and shingled spire. There are a parochial school, and charities £51.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Navestock Marriages 1538 to 1812
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.
BAYLEY, Charles, of Navestock, co Essex, & Elizabeth Beck, of Whitchurch, at W.,
18 May, 1725. Robert Bayley of Whitchurch, gent., & Ambrosia Becke of the s., gentlewoman, bondsmen.
Source: Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens
Parish Records
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Essex Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Ongar
- Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral, Post-1844 – Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Lambourne
- Poor Law Union: Ongar
- Hundred: Ongar
- Province: Canterbury