Little Ilford, Essex Genealogy

Guide to Little Ilford, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Little Ilford or Ilford (Little), is a village and a parish in West Ham district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the River Roding and to the London and Tilbury railway, it is 3/4 of a mile NE of East Ham railway station and 3 1/4 miles E by N of Stratford. The parish also contains the village of Green-Hill-Grove.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Little Ilford parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Mary the Virgin, parish registers and Bishop's transcripts.

See also St Mary's Mission church, St Barnabas Manor Park, St Michael and All Angels Manor Park [Little Ilford] and Manor Park United Reformed Church, Manor Park Wesleyan Methodist church, Romford Road, Little Ilford Methodist Church, Sixth Avenue.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Congregationalist
 * Free Church of England
 * Methodist
 * Reformed Episcopal
 * Roman Catholic
 * Strict Baptist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions

 * West Ham Poor Law Union, Essex

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Little Ilford on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)