Stanstead Mountfitchet Essex Family History Guide

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Stanstead Mountfitchet is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Other places in the parish include: Bentfield.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St Mary the Virgin

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629; 1715; 1800

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Society of Friends/Quaker.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STANSTEAD-MOUNTFITCHET, a village and a parish in the district of Bishop-Stortford and county of Essex.

The village stands on the river Stort, and the London and Cambridge railway, 2¾ miles NE of Bishop-Stortford; consists of two streets; and has a post-office. under Bishop-Stortford, a r. station, a literary institution and reading room, and a fair on 1 May.

The parish includes the hamlet of Bentfield, and comprises 4,193 acres. Real property, £8,990. Pop., 1,769. Houses, 381. The manors of S. and Burnell, with S. Hall, belong to W. F. Maitland, Esq.; and that of Bentfield, to R. Gosling, Esq. A castle was built here by W. G. Montfitchet, and is now represented by only a mound. A Benedictine priory was founded at Thremhall, about 1258, by R. Montfitchet; and has left some vestiges.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £306. Patron, W. F. Maitland, Esq. The church was built in 1692, and the chancel was partly restored in 1861.

An Independent chapel, in the Lombardo-Venetian style, was built in 1865. There are also a Quakers’ chapel and a parochial school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, Stanstead-Mountfitchet – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Stansted Mountfichet, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Essex, Stanstead-Mountfitchet – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Stansted-Mountfitchet, 1629-1630, 1715
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stansted-Mountfitchet (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Stansted-Mountfitchet, 1800-1870
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stansted-Mountfitchet (Essex)

Church records, 1791-1837
Author: Independent Church (Stanstead-Mountfitchet, Essex)

Parish registers for Stansted-Mountfitchet, 1558-1934
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stansted-Mountfitchet (Essex)

England, Essex, Stanstead-Mountfitchet – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Stanstead or Stansted Mountfichet, Independent, Essex, Eng

Parish register printouts of Stanstead-Mountfitchet, Essex, England (Independent) ; christenings, 1791-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Stanstead-Mountfitchet, Essex, England (Independent) ; christenings, 1822-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Bishops Stortford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Sampford, Post-1846 – Newport
  • Poor Law Union: Bishop’s Stortford
  • Hundred: Clavering (Essex); Uttlesford
  • Province: Canterbury