Wrabness Essex Family History Guide

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Wrabness is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1650
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WRABNESS, a parish, with a r. station, in Tendring district, Essex; on the Harwich railway and on the river Stour, 5¼ miles W of Harwich. It has a postal pillar-box under Manningtree.

Acres, 1,491; of which 415 are water. Real property, £2,758. Pop., 226. Houses, 53. The manor belongs to E. W. Garland , Esq. W. Hall is the seat of the Richardsons.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £320. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is plain.

There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, Wrabness – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions at All Saints, Wrabness, 1728-2003
Author: Scarborough, Janette

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

England, Essex, Wrabness – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census index of Wrabness : PRO no. HO 107 1780, ERO no. 6

England, Essex, Wrabness – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Wrabness, 1629-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wrabness (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Wrabness, 1800-1883
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wrabness (Essex)

Parish registers for Wrabness, 1650-1958
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wrabness (Essex)

England, Essex, Wrabness – Occupations ( 1 )
Vestry minutes and overseers records, 1661-1924
Author: Wrabness (Essex)

England, Essex, Wrabness – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Vestry minutes and overseers records, 1661-1924
Author: Wrabness (Essex)

England, Essex, Wrabness – Public records ( 1 )
Vestry minutes and overseers records, 1661-1924
Author: Wrabness (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 – Harwich
  • Poor Law Union: Tendring
  • Hundred: Tendring
  • Province: Canterbury