The Essex Record Office is the repository for records about the county of Essex in England. The office is run by Essex County Council.[1] A searchable database of the records held at the office is available on a system called Seax.[2]
The Record Office was previously held within County Hall, Chelmsford, before being transferred to a specially built premises on Wharf Road beside River Chelmer.[3] Since 2015 the Record Office has produced duplicate birth, marriage, and death certificates for the registration district of Essex.
History
The Essex Record Office was founded in 1938 by Essex County Council, with F.G. Emmison appointed as the first County Archivist. The initial collection of muniments in 1939 included Court Rolls, Parish Records, Deeds, and Charters. On account of sparse storage space by 1997, plans were made by Essex County Council for a new Record Office facility, to accommodate increasing numbers of document accessions,[4] whilst also being equipped with a purpose built sound archive, conservation studio, lecture theatre, and seminar spaces.
Selected publications
Brown, Arthur Frederick James. (1982) Chartism in Essex and Suffolk. ISBN0900360623
Brown, Arthur Frederick James. (1990) Meagre Harvest: The Essex Farm Workers' Struggle Against Poverty, 1750-1914. ISBN0900360771
Brown, Arthur Frederick James. (1996) Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Essex, 1700-1815. ISBN1898529086
Fisher, John. (2003) A Medieval Farming Glossary of Latin and English Words. ISBN1898529213
Briggs, Nancy R. (1991) John Johnson, 1732-1814: Georgian Architect and County Surveyor of Essex, ISBN0900360828
Ward, Jennifer C. (1991) The Essex Gentry and the County Community in the Fourteenth Century. ISBN0900360860 (Studies in Essex History)
Grieve, Hilda. (1954) Examples of English Handwriting 1150-1750. ISBN0900360313
Benham, Hervey. (1993) Essex Gold: Fortunes of the Essex Oysterman. ISBN0900360925
Phillips, Andrew. (1998) Ten Men and Colchester. ISBN0900360658
Hunter, John. (1999) The Essex Landscape: A Study of Its Form and History. ISBN1898529159
Lidell, Sue and Bill. (1996) Imagined Land: Essex in poetry and prose. ISBN1898529108
Spalding, Fred & Jarvis, Stan. (1996) The World of Fred Spalding: Photographs of Essex 1860-1940. ISBN1898529078
Smith, J.R. (1987) The Speckled Monster: Smallpox in England, 1670-1970, with particular reference to Essex.ISBN0900360682
Smith, J.R. (1992) Pilgrims & Adventurers: Essex (England) and the making of the United States of America. ISBN0900360909
Benham, Hervey. (1986) The Smugglers' Century: The Story of smuggling on the Essex Coast, 1730-1830. ISBN0900360674
Rusiecki, Paul. (2008) The Impact of Catastrophe: The people of Essex and the First World War (1914-1920)ISBN9781898529286
Hussey, Stephen (2000) Headline History: One hundred years of Essex history from the pages of the Essex Chronicle newspaper. ISBN1898529167