North Fambridge Essex Family History Guide

North Fambridge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1556
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1800

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FAMBRIDGE (North), a parish in Maldon district, Essex; on the river Crouch, at a ferry to South Fambridge, 6½ miles S of Maldon r. station. Post town, Latchingdon, under Maldon.

Acres, 1, 248. Real property £1, 577. Pop., 191. Houses, 34. The name Fambridge is thought to be a corruption of Foambridge, and to have been derived from a bridge which anciently stood here, and raised foam in the current. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £283. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old but good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, North Fambridge – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for North Fambridge, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

The Crouch Valley parishes : Althorne, Creeksea, Latchingdon, North Fambridge, and pulpits in the Dengie Hundred
Author: Fairman, Ron

England, Essex, North Fambridge – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for North Fambridge, 1639-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of North Fambridge (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for North Fambridge, 1800-1868
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of North Fambridge (Essex)

Parish registers for North Fambridge, 1556-1982
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of North Fambridge (Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Maldon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Chelmsford, Post-1844 – Maldon
  • Poor Law Union: Maldon
  • Hundred: Dengie
  • Province: Canterbury