Ovington Essex Family History Guide
Ovington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places in the parish include: Belchamp St Ethelbert.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1630
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
OVINGTON, a parish in the district of Risbridge and county of Essex; near the river Stour at the boundary with Essex, 2 miles S by W of Clare, and 2½ N by E of Yeldham r. station.
It appears on record so early as the time of Edward the Confessor; and it includes the quondam parish of Belchamp, St. Ethelbert. Post-town, Clare, under Sudbury. Acres, 705. Real property, £1,122. Pop., 145. Houses, 32. Ovington Hall is now a farm-house.
The living is a rectory, united with the rectories of Belchamp, St. Ethelbert and Tilbury, and with the chapelry of Allbrights, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £547. Patron, the Rev.J. Fisher. The church is ancient and small.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
OVINGTON, a parish, in the union of Risbridge, hundred of Hinckford, N. division of Essex, 2¼ miles (S. by W.) from Clare; containing 166 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, with that of Tilbury consolidated, valued in the king’s books at £7, and in the gift of John Fisher, Esq.: the tithes of Ovington have been commuted for £207, and the glebe comprises 22 acres. The church, a small neat edifice, is pleasantly seated on an eminence surrounded with trees.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Directories
Post Office Directory of Essex, 1874 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1882 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1894 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1902 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1914 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex 1890 – Google Books
Poll Books
Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Risbridge
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Hedingham, Post-1846 – Yeldham
- Poor Law Union: Risbridge
- Hundred: Hinckford
- Province: Canterbury