The Essex memorial inscriptions have been compiled from engravings found on tombstones and other memorials in the churches and churchyards of Essex. They represent significant evidence for your family history research and can often provide additional information outside of death dates. This record set represents two decades of work by transcribers from the Essex Society for Family History
A full list of parishes covered by the records and the dates the records are available for is given below. The date ranges are those derived from the earliest and latest records and do not necessarily reflect a complete run of years.
Essex monumental inscriptions place list
Place | Year from | Year to | Number of records | New |
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Abberton | 1701 | 1995 | 317 | New |
Abbess Roding | 1613 | 1999 | 342 | New |
Aldham | 1851 | 1986 | 292 | |
Althorne | 1502 | 2001 | 476 | New |
Ardleigh | 1950 | 1950 | 13 | |
Arkesden | 1914 | 1939 | 10 | |
Ashdon | 1566 | 1979 | 607 | |
Ashen | 1914 | 1939 | 7 | |
Ashingdon | 1744 | 1998 | 1289 | New |
Aveley | 1914 | 1945 | 59 | |
Aythorpe Roding | 1687 | 1999 | 233 | New |
Bardfield Saling | 1914 | 1939 | 10 | |
Barling | 1658 | 1979 | 275 | New |
Barnston | 1525 | 2001 | 383 | NEw |
Basildon | 1706 | 2002 | 1116 | New |
Battlesbridge | 1981 | 2007 | 7 | New |
Beauchamp Roding | 1798 | 1999 | 214 | New |
Belchamp Otten | 1719 | 1994 | 216 | New |
Belchamp St Paul | 1914 | 1939 | 20 | |
Belchamp Walter | 1635 | 1995 | 356 | New |
Bentley Common | 1881 | 1995 | 1224 | |
Berden | 1915 | 1947 | 13 | New |
Berners Roding | 1591 | 1985 | 86 | |
Bicknacre | 1928 | 2000 | 46 | New |
Billericay | 1769 | 1999 | 620 | New |
Birch | 1724 | 1991 | 985 | New |
Birchanger | 1705 | 2004 | 922 | New |
Birdbrook | 1914 | 1951 | 29 | |
Black Notley | 1657 | 1992 | 636 | New |
Blackmore | 1594 | 1997 | 805 | New |
Bobbingworth | 1914 | 1914 | 12 | |
Boreham | 1542 | 2003 | 1858 | New |
Bowers Gifford | 1348 | 1986 | 400 | New |
Boxted | 1839 | 2010 | 268 | |
Bradfield | 1598 | 1984 | 1207 | New |
Bradwell juxta Coggeshall | 1648 | 1992 | 371 | New |
Braintree | 1818 | 2004 | 7118 | New |
Brentwood | 1776 | 1907 | 146 | New |
Brightlingsea | 1542 | 1988 | 4554 | New |
Broomfield | 1571 | 1995 | 5166 | |
Broxted | 1914 | 1939 | 19 | |
Bulmer | 1713 | 1993 | 605 | New |
Bulphan | 1717 | 2000 | 438 | New |
Canewdon | 1531 | 1996 | 912 | New |
Castle Hedingham | 1619 | 2007 | 1728 | New |
Chadwell St Mary | 1914 | 1939 | 13 | |
Chappel | 1730 | 1996 | 407 | New |
Chelmsford | 1544 | 1995 | 7003 | New |
Chignall Smealy | 1456 | 1994 | 441 | New |
Chignall St James | 1702 | 1996 | 123 | |
Childerditch | 1750 | 1999 | 228 | New |
Chipping Ongar | 1900 | 1939 | 355 | |
Chrishall | 1914 | 1917 | 63 | |
Clavering | 1914 | 1939 | 66 | |
Colchester | 1725 | 1942 | 926 | New |
Cold Norton | 1599 | 1998 | 399 | New |
Colne Engaine | 1736 | 1979 | 607 | New |
Coopersale | 1914 | 1939 | 27 | New |
Copford | 1624 | 1980 | 674 | |
Cornish Hall End | 1914 | 1939 | 10 | |
Corringham | 1340 | 2016 | 278 | New |
Crays Hill | 1914 | 1914 | 8 | New |
Creeksea | 1631 | 2011 | 227 | New |
Cressing | 1607 | 1990 | 764 | New |
Dagenham | 1939 | 1939 | 802 | |
Danbury | 1414 | 1996 | 3168 | New |
Debden | 1914 | 1939 | 32 | |
Doddinghurst | 1683 | 1996 | 712 | New |
Dovercourt | 1910 | 1998 | 688 | New |
Downham | 1588 | 1995 | 1074 | New |
Duddenhoe End | 1914 | 1939 | 5 | |
Dunton | 1690 | 1995 | 123 | New |
Earls Colne | 1602 | 1977 | 1799 | New |
East Ham | 1915 | 1945 | 60 | |
East Hanningfield | 1728 | 1994 | 655 | New |
East Horndon | 1422 | 1994 | 479 | New |
Easthorpe | 1652 | 1996 | 164 | New |
Eastwick | 10No years* | |||
Eastwood | 1600 | 1996 | 2595 | |
Elmdon | 1914 | 1939 | 30 | |
Elmstead | 1354 | 1995 | 911 | New |
Elsenham | 1914 | 1939 | 182 | |
Epping Upland | 1914 | 1939 | 21 | |
Epping | 1914 | 1939 | 242 | |
Fairstead | 1656 | 1987 | 292 | New |
Farnham | 1914 | 1939 | 24 | New |
Faulkbourne | 1576 | 1988 | 354 | New |
Feering | 1623 | 2001 | 1032 | New |
Felsted | 1420 | 2000 | 2306 | New |
Finchingfield | 1914 | 1939 | 76 | |
Fingringhoe | 1587 | 1996 | 658 | New |
Fobbing | 1727 | 2001 | 827 | New |
Fordham | 1711 | 1978 | 837 | |
Foulness | 1698 | 1999 | 516 | New |
Foxearth | 1914 | 1914 | 87 | |
Frating | 1720 | 1973 | 225 | New |
Frinton on Sea | 1914 | 1939 | 43 | |
Fryerning | 1698 | 1926 | 362 | New |
Fyfield | 1914 | 1982 | 21 | |
Galleywood | 1874 | 1997 | 1457 | New |
Gestingthorpe | 1533 | 1987 | 668 | New |
Gilston | 1814 | 1939 | 34 | |
Goldhanger | 1531 | 1996 | 818 | New |
Good Easter | 1610 | 1992 | 407 | New |
Gosfield | 1440 | 2007 | 1488 | New |
Grays Thurrock | 1914 | 1939 | 375 | |
Great Baddow | 1614 | 1998 | 4011 | New |
Great Bardfield | 1914 | 1939 | 20 | |
Great Bentley | 1735 | 1939 | 1128 | New |
Great Braxted | 1654 | 1995 | 653 | New |
Great Bromley | 1916 | 1980 | 18 | New |
Great Burstead | 1661 | 1994 | 2318 | New |
Great Canfield | 1914 | 1914 | 7 | |
Great Chesterford | 1914 | 1939 | 26 | |
Great Chishill | 1914 | 1914 | 13 | |
Great Clacton | 1728 | 1973 | 458 | New |
Great Coggeshall | 1580 | 2009 | 4350 | New |
Great Dunmow | 1914 | 1939 | 226 | |
Great Easton | 1914 | 1944 | 18 | |
Great Hallingbury | 1914 | 1939 | 23 | |
Great Henny | 1530 | 1991 | 184 | New |
Great Horkesley | 1327 | 1986 | 998 | New |
Great Ilford | 1811 | 1978 | 308 | New |
Great Leighs | 1414 | 1994 | 913 | New |
Great Maplestead | 1914 | 1914 | 7 | |
Great Oakley | 1619 | 2004 | 1095 | New |
Great Oakley | 1914 | 1939 | 38 | |
Great Parndon | 1598 | 2011 | 755 | New |
Great Saling | 1914 | 1939 | 15 | |
Great Sampford | 1914 | 1914 | 32 | |
Great Stambridge | 1371 | 2006 | 1000 | New |
Great Tey | 1701 | 1994 | 514 | New |
Great Totham | 1606 | 2014 | 1877 | New |
Great Wakering | 1699 | 2006 | 2156 | New |
Great Waltham | 1589 | 1998 | 2153 | |
Great Warley | 1661 | 1941 | 271 | New |
Great Wigborough | 1555 | 2000 | 319 | New |
Great Yeldham | 1629 | 1996 | 947 | New |
Greenstead Green | 1836 | 1995 | 289 | |
Greensted-juxta-Ongar | 1100 | 2016 | 399 | New |
Hadleigh | 1719 | 2012 | 2178 | New |
Hadstock | 1796 | 2009 | 1172 | |
Halstead | 1400 | 1945 | 226 | |
Harlow | 1326 | 2013 | 4875 | New |
Hatfield Broad Oak | 1914 | 1945 | 18 | |
Hatfield Heath | 1914 | 1944 | 95 | |
Hatfield Peverel | 1100 | 1999 | 2343 | New |
Havering atte Bower | 1914 | 1914 | 11 | |
Hazeleigh | 1756 | 2001 | 77 | New |
Helions Bumpstead | 1914 | 1914 | 16 | |
Hempstead | 1914 | 1939 | 28 | |
Henham | 1914 | 1945 | 38 | |
Heybridge | 1504 | 1999 | 434 | |
Heydon | 1914 | 1939 | 10 | New |
High Easter | 1728 | 1998 | 596 | |
High Laver | 1693 | 2003 | 394 | New |
High Ongar | 1895 | 1939 | 47 | |
High Roding | 1603 | 1999 | 418 | New |
High Wych | 1914 | 1939 | 39 | |
Highwood | 1844 | 1996 | 498 | New |
Hockley | 1711 | 2000 | 1168 | New |
Horndon on the Hill | 1555 | 2000 | 747 | New |
Hunsdon | 1914 | 1939 | 25 | |
Ickleton | 1914 | 1939 | 23 | |
Ingatestone | 1877 | 1993 | 17 | New |
Ingrave | 1466 | 2001 | 1295 | New |
Ingrave | 1859 | 1939 | 61 | |
Inworth | 1731 | 1992 | 272 | New |
Kelvedon Hatch | 1551 | 2001 | 741 | New |
Kelvedon | 1430 | 2000 | 2473 | New |
Kirby le Soken | 1729 | 1995 | 1525 | |
Lamarsh | 1914 | 1914 | 9 | |
Lambourne | 1914 | 1946 | 45 | |
Langdon Hills | 1630 | 2001 | 929 | New |
Langford | 1764 | 2004 | 540 | New |
Langley | 1914 | 1914 | 10 | |
Latchingdon | 1760 | 2009 | 529 | New |
Latchingdon | 1724 | 2009 | 400 | |
Latton | 1467 | 2007 | 498 | New |
Lawford | 1584 | 1990 | 1196 | |
Layer Breton | 1797 | 1981 | 199 | New |
Layer Marney | 1360 | 1999 | 388 | |
Layer de la Haye | 1543 | 2011 | 883 | New |
Leaden Roding | 1682 | 1999 | 212 | |
Leigh on Sea | 1453 | 1987 | 666 | New |
Lexden | 1676 | 1991 | 1885 | New |
Little Baddow | 1470 | 1995 | 1070 | New |
Little Bardfield | 1916 | 1919 | 12 | |
Little Bentley | 1490 | 1998 | 380 | New |
Little Braxted | 1508 | 1990 | 210 | New |
Little Bromley | 1717 | 1993 | 219 | New |
Little Burstead | 1617 | 2004 | 862 | New |
Little Canfield | 1914 | 1939 | 6 | |
Little Chesterford | 1914 | 1914 | 9 | |
Little Chishill | 1918 | 1944 | 2 | |
Little Clacton | 1568 | 2011 | 1137 | New |
Little Coggeshall | 1910 | 1910 | 1 | |
Little Dunmow | 1235 | 2006 | 458 | New |
Little Easton | 1914 | 1939 | 60 | |
Little Hadham | 1914 | 1939 | 22 | |
Little Hadham | 1914 | 1939 | 21 | |
Little Hallingbury | 1914 | 1939 | 78 | |
Little Horkesley | 1391 | 2013 | 545 | New |
Little Laver | 1792 | 2001 | 258 | New |
Little Leighs | 1384 | 1994 | 506 | New |
Little Maplestead | 1914 | 1914 | 3 | |
Little Parndon | 1651 | 2002 | 280 | New |
Little Sampford | 1914 | 1939 | 11 | |
Little Tey | 1764 | 2005 | 205 | New |
Little Totham | 1606 | 1994 | 346 | New |
Little Wakering | 1672 | 1981 | 487 | New |
Little Waltham | 1447 | 1998 | 893 | New |
Little Warley | 1592 | 1991 | 226 | |
Little Wigborough | 1662 | 1996 | 132 | New |
Little Yeldham | 1696 | 1993 | 257 | New |
Littlebury | 1914 | 1939 | 25 | |
Loughton | 1914 | 1918 | 90 | |
Magdalen Laver | 1667 | 2004 | 360 | New |
Maldon | 1486 | 2009 | 2663 | New |
Manningtree | 1722 | 1946 | 337 | New |
Manuden | 1623 | 1992 | 830 | New |
Margaret Roding | 1716 | 1999 | 283 | New |
Marks Tey | 1876 | 2010 | 283 | New |
Markshall | 1741 | 1928 | 62 | New |
Mashbury | 1804 | 1985 | 132 | New |
Matching | 1638 | 2005 | 731 | New |
Mayland | 1656 | 2000 | 649 | New |
Messing | 1530 | 1991 | 700 | New |
Middleton | 1914 | 1939 | 37 | |
Moreton | 1914 | 1940 | 17 | |
Moulsham | 1837 | 1951 | 782 | New |
Mountnessing | 1583 | 2000 | 821 | New |
Mucking | 1607 | 1976 | 357 | New |
Mundon | 1712 | 1990 | 126 | New |
Myland/Mile End | 1719 | 1984 | 1566 | New |
Navestock | 1589 | 2000 | 680 | New |
Nazeing | 1842 | 1939 | 260 | |
Netteswell | 1523 | 1974 | 5459 | New |
Nevendon | 1677 | 1996 | 289 | New |
Newport | 1914 | 1939 | 50 | |
North Benfleet | 1659 | 1993 | 233 | New |
North Chingford | 1914 | 1914 | 242 | |
North Fambridge | 1766 | 2001 | 227 | New |
North Shoebury | 1700 | 2001 | 596 | |
North Weald Bassett | 1914 | 1963 | 365 | |
Orsett | 1485 | 1992 | 1839 | New |
Paglesham | 1681 | 1993 | 425 | New |
Panfield | 1733 | 2011 | 611 | New |
Parkeston | 1914 | 1956 | 514 | New |
Pattiswick | 1638 | 1988 | 158 | New |
Pebmarsh | 1914 | 1914 | 24 | |
Peldon | 1754 | 1999 | 600 | New |
Pentlow | 1914 | 1944 | 9 | |
Pitsea | 1731 | 1984 | 657 | New |
Pleshey | 1745 | 1996 | 390 | New |
Purleigh | 1592 | 2013 | 1108 | New |
Quenden | 1914 | 1939 | 21 | |
Radwinter | 1914 | 1939 | 34 | |
Ramsden Bellhouse | 1720 | 1996 | 423 | New |
Ramsden Crays | 1731 | 1995 | 157 | New |
Ramsden Heath | 1870 | 1996 | 201 | New |
Ramsey | 1705 | 1999 | 824 | New |
Rawreth | 1527 | 1999 | 671 | New |
Rayleigh | 1416 | 1990 | 772 | New |
Rayne | 1556 | 1998 | 800 | New |
Rettendon | 1552 | 1999 | 894 | New |
Rickling | 1914 | 1914 | 25 | |
Ridgewell | 1914 | 1939 | 15 | |
Rivenhall | 1594 | 1989 | 1196 | New |
Rochford | 1514 | 1997 | 2246 | New |
Roxwell | 1593 | 1996 | 2201 | New |
Roydon | 1914 | 1939 | 71 | |
Runwell | 1547 | 2005 | 732 | New |
Saffron Walden | 1544 | 1982 | 2252 | New |
Sandon | 1520 | 1997 | 883 | New |
Sawbridgeworth | 1914 | 1939 | 118 | |
Shalford | 1537 | 2012 | 772 | New |
Sheering | 1914 | 1939 | 50 | |
Shelley | 1595 | 2009 | 255 | New |
Shellow Bowells | 1770 | 1992 | 57 | New |
Shenfield | 1631 | 2008 | 2794 | New |
Shoeburyness | 1865 | 1946 | 277 | New |
Shopland | 1639 | 1939 | 93 | New |
Sible Hedingham | 1369 | 2008 | 2093 | New |
South Fambridge | 1685 | 1998 | 105 | New |
South Hanningfield | 1678 | 1994 | 289 | New |
South Shoebury | 1236 | 2009 | 3239 | New |
South Weald | 1634 | 1988 | 548 | New |
Southchurch | 1678 | 2002 | 3205 | New |
Southend on Sea | 1840 | 1980 | 2005 | New |
Springfield | 1421 | 1998 | 2867 | New |
St Lawrence Newland | 1722 | 1999 | 308 | New |
Stambourne | 1710 | 2004 | 570 | New |
Stanford Rivers | 1492 | 2000 | 837 | New |
Stanford le Hope | 1914 | 1939 | 103 | |
Stanstead Abbotts | 1914 | 1939 | 46 | |
Stanstead St Margarets | 1914 | 1914 | 8 | |
Stansted Mountfitchet | 1914 | 1939 | 120 | |
Stapleford Tawney | 1491 | 2008 | 370 | New |
Stebbing | 1914 | 1939 | 49 | |
Steeple Bumpstead | 1914 | 1939 | 41 | |
Steeple | 1759 | 2000 | 371 | New |
Stock | 1574 | 1997 | 1647 | New |
Stondon Massey | 1570 | 1995 | 471 | New |
Stow Maries | 1602 | 2004 | 344 | New |
Strethall | 1508 | 1989 | 140 | |
Sturmer | 1620 | 2008 | 525 | New |
Sturmer | 1914 | 2001 | 13 | |
Sutton | 1371 | 1996 | 443 | New |
Takeley | 1632 | 2004 | 1047 | |
Tendring | 1615 | 2001 | 763 | New |
Terling | 1558 | 1990 | 1404 | New |
Thaxted | 1914 | 1939 | 161 | |
Theydon Bois | 1914 | 1939 | 54 | |
Theydon Garnon | 1735 | 1994 | 748 | New |
Theydon Mount | 1577 | 2009 | 495 | New |
Thorley | 1914 | 1919 | 119 | |
Thundersley | 1884 | 1991 | 231 | New |
Tilbury juxta Clare | 1685 | 1990 | 120 | New |
Tillingham | 1866 | 1916 | 19 | New |
Tilty | 1914 | 1914 | 6 | |
Tiptree | 1810 | 2006 | 2521 | New |
Tollesbury | 1914 | 1939 | 64 | |
Tolleshunt Knights | 1757 | 1984 | 183 | New |
Toppesfield | 1585 | 1998 | 756 | New |
Ugley | 1914 | 1939 | 57 | |
Ulting | 1754 | 1989 | 209 | New |
Upshire | 1914 | 1939 | 24 | |
Vange | 1659 | 2001 | 1924 | New |
Wakes Colne | 1611 | 1995 | 659 | New |
Waltham Abbey | 1914 | 1939 | 243 | |
Walton le Soken | 1914 | 1945 | 177 | |
Weeley | 1758 | 1988 | 601 | New |
Wendens Ambo | 1914 | 1944 | 56 | |
West Bergholt | 1670 | 2007 | 644 | New |
West Hanningfield | 1361 | 1994 | 669 | New |
Westcliff on Sea | 1872 | 1951 | 342 | New |
Wethersfield | 1673 | 2004 | 1429 | |
White Colne | 1767 | 1996 | 423 | New |
White Notley | 1724 | 1990 | 657 | New |
White Roding | 1680 | 1999 | 460 | New |
Wicken Bonhunt | 1693 | 1975 | 163 | New |
Wickford | 1731 | 2005 | 1253 | New |
Wickham Bishops | 1767 | 1998 | 1020 | New |
Wickham St Paul | 1660 | 1988 | 253 | New |
Widdington | 1914 | 1914 | 8 | |
Widford | 1728 | 1993 | 641 | New |
Willingale Doe | 1582 | 1994 | 631 | New |
Willingale Spain | 1614 | 1994 | 212 | New |
Wimbish | 1914 | 1939 | 29 | |
Witham | 1584 | 2010 | 6159 | New |
Wivenhoe | 1507 | 1994 | 1447 | |
Woodham Ferrers | 1588 | 1999 | 1433 | New |
Woodham Mortimer | 1584 | 1998 | 536 | New |
Woodham Walter | 1647 | 1995 | 739 | New |
Wrabness | 1728 | 2003 | 490 | New |