North Ockendon Essex Family History Guide
North Ockendon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names: Ockendon of the Seven Fountains
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1570
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
OCKENDON (North), a village and a parish in Orsett district, Essex.
The village stands 5 miles NNW of Grays r. station, and 6 SE by E of Romford; and has a post-office under Romford.
The parish, in allusion to the number of springs in it, is sometimes called Ockendon of the Seven Fountains. Acres, 1, 698. Real property, £3,070. Pop., 341. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. Stubbers, an old brick manor-house, is the seat ofB. Russell, Esq. The parish is a meet for the South Essex hounds.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £550. Patron, R. Benyon, Esq. The church is ancient; was restored in 1858, at a cost of more than £1,000; has a tower of flint and stone; and contains brasses and monuments of the Poyntzes and the Littletons.
There are a national school, and charities £53.
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: Chafford
- Poor Law Union: Orsett
- Hundred: Chafford
- Province: Canterbury