Weeley Essex Family History Guide

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Weeley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WEELEY, a parish, with an ancient village, in Tendring district, Essex; on the Tendring Hundred railway, 10½ miles ESE of Colchester. It has a post-office under Colchester, and a r. station.

Acres, 2,087. Real property, £4,105. Pop., 630. Houses, 146. The property is much subdivided. Barracks and a garrison were here during the war with France. Bricks and tiles are made.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £580. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, Weeley – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions at St. Andrew, Weeley, Essex, g.r. 154216, 1758-1988 : 367 inscriptions including war memorial
Author: Jones, Mary; Wolfe, Marie; Essex Society for Family History

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

England, Essex, Weeley – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Weeley, 1800-1877
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Weeley (Essex)

Parish registers for Weeley, 1560-1866
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Weeley (Essex)

England, Essex, Weeley – Taxation ( 1 )
Tithe records, 1806-1815, 1837-1844
Author: Weeley (Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Tendring
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Colchester
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Tendring, Post-1846 – St Osyth
  • Poor Law Union: Tendring
  • Hundred: Tendring
  • Province: Canterbury