Little Ilford, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes

Parish History
ILFORD, LITTLE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of West Ham, hundred of Becontree, S. division of Essex, 7 miles (E. N. E.) from London; containing 189 inhabitants.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848).

Little Ilford St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex. Other places in the parish include: Green Hill Grove.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

Little Ilford and Great Ilford have a common etymology. The name is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ilefort and means ford over the Hyle; an old name for the River Roding that means "trickling stream".

It is located near to Ilford (historically known as Great Ilford)[2] in the London Borough of Redbridge. They are divided from each other by the North Circular Road and the River Roding, and connected by the A118 road.

Little Ilford was a civil parish in the West Ham Rural Sanitary District in Essex from 1875 to 1886, when it became part the East Ham Urban Sanitary District, and after 1894 the East Ham urban district. It was abolished as a civil parish in 1900, becoming part of the parish of East Ham and from 1915 the County Borough of East Ham.

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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
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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.

Census records
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Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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.

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Web sites
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