North Weald Essex Family History Guide

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

Other places in the parish include: Hastingwood, North West Bassett, and Thornwood.

Alternative names: North Weald-Basset, North Weald Bassett

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1557
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1803

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

• Stanford Rivers
• High Laver
• Magdalen Laver
• High Ongar
• Epping
• Harlow St Mary and St Hugh
• Theydon Garnon
• Latton
• Theydon Mount

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WEALD-BASSETT (North), a parish, with a village, two hamlets, and a r. station, in Epping district, Essex; on the London and Ongar railway, 3 miles NE of Epping. Post town, Epping.

Acres, 3,377. Real property, £3,563. Pop., 842. Houses, 185. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £445. Patron, alternately the Bishop of Rochester and R. P. Ward, Esq. The church is good; and there are an endowed school with £10 a year, and charities 13.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, North Weald-Bassett – Biography ( 1 )
A history of North Weald Bassett and its people
Author: Newens, Arthur Stanley

England, Essex, North Weald-Bassett – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for North Weald Bassett, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Essex, North Weald-Bassett – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for North Weald-Bassett, 1639-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of North Weald-Bassett (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for North Weald-Bassett, 1803-1870
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of North Weald-Bassett (Essex)

England, Essex, North Weald-Bassett – History ( 1 )
A history of North Weald Bassett and its people
Author: Newens, Arthur Stanley

England, Essex, North Weald-Bassett – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Court rolls, 1519-1536
Author: Manor of Marshalls. Court (Essex)

Administration

• County: Essex
• Civil Registration District: Epping
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
• Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
• Rural Deanery: Ongar
• Poor Law Union: Epping
• Hundred: Harlow; Ongar
• Province: Canterbury