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Benefits of Membership
● The Essex Family Historian three times a 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 |
RootsTech2021 Online Family History event
25 – 27 February, 24 hours a day. It is FREE, so why don’t you register? For more details click here |
Membership Renewals by Cheque
Our Membership Secretary is unable to get to the bank during lockdown. Any cheques received will be banked asap. Your membership will be not be affected. |
Census 2021
The next Census will be taken in March this year For more information about it see here. |
Research Centre
Our Research Centre is closed until further notice. When we re-open we need more volunteers. See here for details |
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 to the right of 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
Harwich harbour with St Nicholas Church on the the skyline

Cressing Temple built by the Knights Templar c1137. This photograph is of the Barley Barn recognised as the oldest timber-framed barn in the world.
Thorrington Tide Mill ~ A weather-boarded tide mill built in 1831 with a breastshot waterwheel and three pairs of millstones.
Maldon Regatta September 2014
Latest Surname Interests
Name | County | Parish |
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Crane | ESS | rochford |
Wade | ESS | rochford |
Hardy | ESS | |
Thorogood | ESS | |
Harding | ESS | |
Bocking | ESS | Wickham St Paul or Halste |
Golding | ESS | Wickham St Paul |
Smith | ESS | Gestingthorpe |
Samms | ESS | Finchingfield |
Cook | ESS | Finchingfield |
Newborn | ESS | Finchingfield |
Mead / mede | ESS | Finchingfield |
Daines | ESS | Sible Hedingham |
Daines | ESS | Finchingfield |
Daines | ESS | Bocking Church Street |
Daines | ESS | Wethersfield |
Daines | ESS | Toppesfield |
Lucking | ESS | ALL |
Furrow | ESS | EAST HANNINGFIELD |
Ridgwell | ESS | ALL |
Clark | ESS | |
Lee | ESS | |
Canham | ESS | |
Ledys | NAT | |
How | ESS | Glemsford |
Brewster | ESS | Glemsford |