North Fambridge Essex Family History Guide
North Fambridge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1556
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1800
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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].
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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