Barking, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
BARKING, or Berking, is a town, a subdistrict, and a parish, in the district of Romford, Essex. The town is on the River Roding and on the Southend railway, it is 2 miles N of the Thames, and 7 miles E of Bishopsgate, London. Its name is a corruption of Burging. The town has a station on the railway, the post office is under London E, there are three dissenting chapels, and a Roman Catholic chapel.

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Essex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Essex Archives Online

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Moravian/United Brethren
 * Particular Baptist
 * Plymouth Brethren
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Genealogy From Periodicals
Jarvis, Robin. John Jarvis IV. History of the family of John Jarvis and Martha Lewis with the following surnames, Mack, Ellis, Wiffen, Russley, Porter: with branches moving to Ely, Wigton, Bury St. Edmunds, Gt. Yarmouth, London, Barking, Essex, and Ewell Surrey. Article dated 1700-1877, and is found in The Norfolk Ancestor, vol.9,part 4, pages 235-237. FamilySearch Library Ref. 942.61 B2j new serues v,9. pt. 4 (Dec. 2012)

Poor Law Unions
Romford 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
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)

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