Place:Ongar Rural, Essex, England

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NameOngar Rural
TypeRural district
Located inEssex, England     (1894 - 1955)
See alsoEpping and Ongar Rural, Essex, Englandrural district into which the area was transferred in 1955
Epping Forest (district), Essex, Englanddistrict municipality in which most of the area has been located since 1974

Ongar Rural District was located in the southwest of the County of Essex from 1894 until 1955. Its area was then transferred to Epping and Ongar Rural District.

Parishes

Parish Duration Description Notes
Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding 1946 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish formed from the following three parishes in 1946
Abbess Roding 1894 - 1946 Ancient parish/Civil parish merged with Beauchamp Roding and Berners Roding to form Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding parish in 1946
Beauchamp Roding 1894 - 1946 Civil parish merged with Abbess Roding and Berners Roding to form Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding parish in 1946
Berners Roding 1894 - 1946 Ancient parish/Civil parish merged with Abbess Roding and Beauchamp Roding to form Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding parish in 1946
Blackmore 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Bobbingworth 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Chipping Ongar 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Doddinghurst 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Fyfield 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Greenstead 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
High Laver 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
High Ongar 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Kelvedon Hatch 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Lambourne 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Little Laver 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Moreton 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Navestock 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Norton Mandeville 1894 - 1955 Extra parochial area/Ancient parish/Civil parish
Shelley 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Shellow Bowells 1894 - 1946 Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred to Willingale parish in 1946
Stanford Rivers 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Stapleford Abbotts 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Stapleford Tawney 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Stondon Massey 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Theydon Mount 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Willingale 1946 - 1955 Civil parish created 1946 from Shellow Bowells, Willingale Doe and Willingale Spain parishes
Willingale Doe 1894 - 1946 Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred to Willingale parish in 1946
Willingale Spain 1894 - 1946 Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred to Willingale parish in 1946

Research tips

  • 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