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REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN ESSEX

The list below shows the civil registration districts in Essex since 1837. The same districts were used to compile the census returns for the years 1851 to 1921.

For the purposes of these pages, "Essex " refers to:

Click on a district name in the table below to see the places and dates covered, or see the Index of Place Names for the whole of England and Wales.

 

Registration District

Registration County

From

To

Comments

Basildon

Essex

1974

1974

Created 1.4.1974 out of Brentwood and Thurrock registration districts. Abolished 1.7.1974 and added to Brentwood registration district.

Billericay

Essex

1837

1939

Abolished 1.7.1939 and divided between Brentwood and Chelmsford registration districts.

Bishop's Stortford

Hertfordshire

1837

1939

Partly in Essex until 1.10.1939.

Braintree

Essex

1837

2010

Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

Brentwood

Essex

1939

2010

Created 1.7.1939 out of Billericay, Romford, Orsett and Chelmsford registration districts. Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

Castle Point & Rochford

Essex

1998

2010

Created 1.4.1998 out of Southend-on-Sea registration district. Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

Chelmsford

Essex

1837

2010

Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

Colchester

Essex

1837

2010

Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

Dunmow

Essex

1837

1967

Abolished 1.1.1968 and added to Chelmsford registration district.

East Ham

Essex

1935

1965

Created 1.10.1935 out of West Ham registration district. Transferred to Greater London on 1.4.1965.

Edmonton

Middlesex

1837

1939

Partly in Essex until 1.7.1939.

Epping

Essex

1837

1974

Abolished 1.4.1974 and divided between Epping Forest, Brentwood and Harlow registration districts.

Epping Forest

Essex

1974

2010

Created 1.4.1974 out of Epping registration district. Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

Essex

Essex

2010

 

Created 1.2.2010 from Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point & Rochford, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow and Uttlesford registration districts.

Essex South Western

Essex

1935

1965

Created 1.10.1935 out of West Ham registration district. Abolished 1.4.1965 and divided between Waltham Forest and Redbridge registration districts.

Halstead

Essex

1837

1972

Abolished 1.11.1972 and added to Braintree registration district.

Harlow

Essex

1974

2010

Created 1.4.1974 out of Epping registration district. Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

Harwich

Essex

1939

1957

Created 1.7.1939 out of Tendring registration district. Abolished 1.10.1957 and added to Colchester registration district.

Ilford

Essex

1939

1965

Created 1.7.1939 out of Romford registration district. Abolished 1.4.1965 and divided between Barking, East Ham and Redbridge registration districts.

Lexden

Essex

1837

1939

Abolished 1.7.1939 and divided between Colchester and Braintree registration districts.

Linton

Cambridgeshire

1837

1935

Partly in Essex until 1.4.1935.

Maldon

Essex

1837

1972

Abolished 1.11.1972 and added to Chelmsford registration district.

Maldon

Essex

1974

1974

Created 1.4.1974 out of Chelmsford registration district. Abolished 1.7.1974 and added to Chelmsford registration district.

Ongar

Essex

1837

1939

Abolished 1.7.1939 and added to Epping registration district.

Orsett

Essex

1837

1939

Abolished 1.7.1939 and divided between Thurrock, Brentwood,and Romford registration districts.

Risbridge

Suffolk

1837

1938

Partly in Essex until 1.7.1938.

Rochford

Essex

1837

1974

Abolished 1.4.1974 and added to Southend-on-Sea registration district.

Romford

Essex

1837

1965

Abolished 1.4.1965 and divided between Havering, Barking and Redbridge registration districts.

Royston

Hertfordshire

1837

1895

Partly in Essex until 30.9.1895

Saffron Walden

Essex

1837

1974

Abolished 1.4.1974 and added to Uttlesford registration district.

Southend-on-Sea

Essex

1939

 

Created 1.7.1939 out of Rochford registration district.

Sudbury

Suffolk

1837

1938

Partly in Essex until 1.7.1938.

Tendring

Essex

1837

1939

Abolished 1.7.1939 and divided between Colchester and Harwich registration districts.

Thurrock

Essex

1939

 

Created 1.7.1939 out of Orsett and Rochford registration districts.

Uttlesford

Essex

1974

2010

Created 1.4.1974 out of Saffron Walden and Chelmsford registration districts. Abolished 1.2.2010 and added to Essex registration district.

West Ham

Essex

1837

1965

Transferred to Greater London on 1.4.1965.

Witham

Essex

1837

1880

Abolished 1.7.1880 and divided between Braintree, Lexden and Maldon registration districts.


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