Ashingdon Essex Family History Guide

Ashingdon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Alternative names: Ashington

Parish church: St Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1564
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1802

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHINGDON, a parish in Rochford district, Essex; near the river Crouch, 2¼ miles N of Rochford and 6 NNE of Leigh r. station. Post Town, Rochford, under Ingatestone.

Acres, 1,165. Real property, £1,878. Pop., 99. Houses, 17. The property is divided among a few.

Ashingdon disputes with Ashdon being the ancient Assandune, the scene of Canute’s victory over Edmund Ironside in 1016. An ancient camp was formerly at Canewdon; a great group of barrows, supposed to be the graves of the Danes, is in the neighbouring parish of Woodham-Mortimer; and a church built by Canute, in commemoration of his victory, is said to have stood in the neighbouring village of Hockley.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £254. Patron, the Rev. S. Nottidge. The church is ancient, and has a fine view.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Ashingdon, 1 m. N. Rochford. P. 119

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASHINGDON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Rochford, S. division of Essex, 2¼ miles (N. by W.) from Rochford; containing 119 inhabitants.

This place is thought by the best writers to have been the scene of the battle of Assandune, in which Canute the Dane, after a sanguinary contest, vanquished the Saxons under Edmund Ironside. The parish comprises 1165a. 1r. 11p.

The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £8. 13. 4., and in the gift of the Nottidge family: the tithes have been commuted for £285, and there are 20 acres of glebe.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Essex, Ashingdon – Church history ( 1 )
The minster of Ashingdon
Author: Roper, Anne

England, Essex, Ashingdon – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Ashingdon, 1639-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashingdon (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Ashingdon, 1802-1877
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashingdon (Essex)

Churchwardens and overseers records, 1683-1894
Author: Ashingdon (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Ashingdon (Essex)

Marriage transcripts for Ashingdon, 1568-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashingdon (Essex)

Marriages Ashingdon & Bowers Gifford, Essex, England, 1558-1835
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department; Church of England. Parish Church of Ashingdon (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Bowers-Gifford (Essex)

Parish registers for Ashingdon, 1564-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashingdon (Essex)

England, Essex, Ashingdon – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Churchwardens and overseers records, 1683-1894
Author: Ashingdon (Essex); Church of England. Parish Church of Ashingdon (Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Rochford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Rochford
  • Poor Law Union: Rochford
  • Hundred: Rochford
  • Province: Canterbury