Tillingham Essex Family History Guide

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Tillingham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1561
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TILLINGHAM, a parish, with a village, in Maldon district, Essex; 13 miles ESE of Maldon r. station. It has a post-office under Maldon, and a fair on 16 and 17 Sept.

Acres, 7,235; of which 3,100 are water. Real property, £7,173. Pop., 1,040. Houses, 231. The property is much subdivided. The manor has belonged, from the Saxon times, to the cathedral of St. Paul’s.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £336. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s. The church was recently restored and enlarged.

There are Independent and Baptist chapels, a national school, and charities £35.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, Tillingham – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions : of Holy Trinity, Southchurch, Essex (index) – Kelvedon Hatch, Essex; All Saints, Wakes Colne, Essex; Frating, Essex and Baptist burial ground, Tillingham, Essex
Author: Baxter, Jack H.; Project Arboris

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

England, Essex, Tillingham – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Tillingham, 1813-1877
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tillingham (Essex)

Marriages register of St. Nicholas of Tillingham, Essex, England, 1641-1836
Author: Gillespie, Hugh G.

Parish registers for Tillingham, 1561-1935
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tillingham (Essex)

England, Essex, Tillingham – Manors – Court records ( 3 )
Court rolls and documents, 1547-1782
Author: Manor of Tillingham. Court (Essex)

Court rolls, 1647-1758
Author: Manor of Wyland. Court (Essex)

Court rolls, 1694-1918
Author: Manor of Reculvers Fee. Court (Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Maldon
  • Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral, Post-1844 – Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Dengie
  • Poor Law Union: Maldon
  • Hundred: Dengie
  • Province: Canterbury