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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
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South Weald (#22 on the map) is a settlement in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England.
The parish was part of the Billericay Rural District from 1894 until 1934, when it was absorbed by Brentwood Municipal Borough. Since 1974 it has been located in the Brentwood District or Borough.
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
South Weald is a mainly farmland and park settlement in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. The civil parish of South Weald was absorbed by Brentwood Urban District in 1934. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 6,370.
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South Weald contains Weald Country Park. Among its former mansion's residents was Octavius Coope (1814-1886), the brewer who founded Ind Coope and who, as a Member of Parliament, held three different seats, each for one year.
North Weald, a village in the parish of North Weald Bassett, is centred 6 miles (10 km) northwest in the Epping Forest District.
The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography). The contrast between the places of Brentwood and South Weald in the 19th century and in the 21st is striking.
- WEALD (South), a parish in Billericay [registration] district, Essex; containing [the village of] Brentwood, with post-office and [railway] station. Acres: 5,037. Real property: £14,889; of which £200 are in gasworks. Population in 1851: 3,588; in 1861: 5,209. Houses: 840. Population, exclusive of Brentwood, in 1851: 1,383; in 1861: 2,116. Houses: 307.
- Weald Hall was the birthplace of Queen Mary; was also the residence of Sir Anthony Brown; and is now the residence of J. Tower, Esq. Boyles Court, Oakhurst, Pilgrims Hall, Great Ropers, Rochetts, Mascalls, Ditchleys, and How-Hatch also are chief residences. The Essex lunatic asylum, an edifice in the Tudor style with accommodation for about 700 patients, a school-house and ten alms houses in the Tudor style, built in 1856, a Belvedere tower near the church, and a new cemetery opened in 1860, are prominent objects. There are a chalybeate spring and traces of an ancient camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £656. Patron: the Bishop of [Rochester]. The church was recently restored, at a cost of about £10,000; and has a fine tower. The [perpetual] curacy of Brentwood is a separate benefice.
Research Tips
- Map of Essex showing civil parishes at 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time from the Ordnance Survey original.
- Map of Essex showing civil parishes in 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time from the Ordnance Survey original.
- Essex Record Office handles Essex archives within the county. The address is Wharf Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6YT.
- The Essex Society for Family History covers topics of genealogical interest throughout the present County of Essex (i.e. excluding the western area now in Greater London). Subscription necessary.
- GENUKI provides a list of towns and parishes leading to pages for individual parishes with useful local information for genealogists and family historians.
- Wikimedia Commons has a set of maps of the old hundreds of Essex. These do not show the individual parishes within the hundreds.
- For very detailed investigation Wikimedia Commons also has a series of 176 part maps of the Ordnance Survey 1st series 1:10560, Map of Essex
- FamilySearch lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
- The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
- A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
- British History Online has transcribed eight volumes of the Victoria County History project for Essex. Seven of these cover the history of parts of the county in great detail, although the project is incomplete for Essex as a whole. Ownership of land through the centuries can often be traced here. The volumes of note are as follows:
- Volume 4, Ongar Hundred, including Chipping and High Ongar, Chigwell, Stondon Massey and Theydon Bois (26 parishes in all).
- Volume 5, Becontree Hundred outside Greater London. A thematic account of the growth of metropolitan Essex since 1850. Also contains topographical accounts of Barking, Ilford, Dagenham and other areas of Essex now within Greater London.
- Volume 6, parishes of Becontree Hundred now within the London boroughs of Newham, Waltham Forest and Redbridge. These include West and East Ham, Walthamstow and Wanstead.
- Volume 7, Covers the ancient parishes, formerly within the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower and now within the London borough of Havering, and those in Chafford hundred in western Essex now bordering London. It includes accounts of Hornchurch, Romford, Havering.
- Volume 8, accounts of the parishes of Chafford and Harlow Hundreds, including Brentwood, Harlow and Thurrock.
- Volume 9, the Borough of Colchester, describes the life of the oldest and for long the largest town in Essex from the Iron Age to 1990.
- Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (part), includes Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe and other parishes to the north and west of Colchester.
- As of June 2019 Ancestry (Worldwide subscription required) includes Essex, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, these early records are from parish registers of baptisms and burials during the years 1538–1812, and marriages during the years 1538-1754. These are in addition to their previous holdings:
- Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918: 3,937,941 records
- Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1935: 1,968,439 records
- Essex, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1994: 730,118 records
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