Benefits of Membership
● Advertise your Surname Interests.
● 3 Issues of the Essex Family Historian per year.
● Access to Members Only Area. Items available include:-
● Essex Genealogy Database
● The Essex Gazetteer
● The Essex Family Historian Archive
● FindmyPast Subscription Discount Code
Latest News
Society AGM
The AGM has been held. The Agenda, Minutes of last years meeting and full accounts for 2020-21 can be viewed here
Trinity House
Following our recent talk on Trinity House we have been told their archives are at London Metropolitan Archives http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
The Offical History of Trinity House (Light Upon the Waters) is available from Trinity house at https://shop.trinityhouse.co.uk/products/777
RootsTech2021 Online Family History event
Open until February 2022 - 24 hours a day.
It is FREE! To visit click
here
Research Centre
Our Research Centre has now reopened.
Zoom Meetings
Where possible these meetings will be recorded. For details of how to access these recordings please see here.
Genealogy Database
Our database now has well over 1.9 million records. For details of the recent additions please see here
Online Shop
Click here to visit our online Shop. Here you can purchase any of the Society’s CDs & Research services with your Credit or Debit Card. To see our full Terms & Conditions click the link at the bottom of this page.
Picture Gallery
The Pictures of Essex shown on this page will change each time the page is loaded.
Surname Interests
Surname Interests may be searched by clicking here.
The most recent interests are displayed below the Picture Gallery on the right of this page. Hover over the surname to show the period of interest & over county code to show the full.
To contact a member about their interest, click on the surname to go to the Search Results page & follow the instructions below the list of interests.
We hope that you make a successful link with others researching the same surname.
Office address:-
ESFH, c/o Essex Record Office, Wharf Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6YT
Stony Lane, Thaxted
The Fox Inn ~ a 16th century inn on the Green at Finchingfield
Church of St Andrew, Greensted-jixta-Ongar. The oldest wooden church in the world and the oldest wooden building standing in Europe. The nave of this Saxon church is built of logs.
Latest Surname Interests
| Name | County | Parish |
|---|---|---|
| Williams | ESS | ST LUKES, VICTOIA DOCKS |
| Williams | west ham | |
| Felton | ESS | Belchamp |
| Calmore | ESS | |
| Breckwith | ESS | |
| Ong | ||
| Woodard | ||
| Fownes | LND | |
| Dyer | LIN | Dedham |
| Banister | ESS | Sible Hedingham |
| Palmer | ESS | Sible Hedingham |
| Ridgewell | ESS | Sible Hedingham |
| Poole | ESS | Sible Hedingham |
| Ruffle | ESS | Sible Hedingham |
| Harknett | ESS | Roydon/Epping |
| Everett | ESS | Sible Hedingham |
| Norris | ESS | Stock |
| Norris | ESS | Great Baddow |
| Knopp | ESS | Elmstead |
| Taylor | MDX | Grey Friars Christchurch |
| Blackwell | OXF | Steeple Barton |
| Burton | ESS | High Ongar |
| Any performers, circus, f | ||
| And associated | ||
| Tweed | ||
| Evans | ESS | Halstead |
| Sudbury | ESS | Halstead |
| Evans | ESS | Halstead |
| Curtis | ESS | Halstead |
| Baines / baynes/ banes | ESS | Sampford /Debden /Wimbish |
