Southchurch Essex Family History Guide
Southchurch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names: South Church
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1695
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1779
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Particular Baptist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SOUTHCHURCH, a village and a parish in Rochford, district, Essex.
The village stands near the Thames’ mouth, 1½ mile E of Southend r. station; and has a post-office under Southend.
The parish includes part of Canvey Island; and comprises 1,180 acres of land, and 3,285 of water. Real property, £9,085; of which £50 are in fisheries. Pop., 494. Houses, 91. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £800. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is old but good.
There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Rochford
- Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Peculiar Deanery of Bocking, Post-1844 – Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Bocking, Post-1844 – Canewdon
- Poor Law Union: Rochford
- Hundred: Rochford
- Province: Canterbury