Walthamstow, Essex Genealogy

England Essex Essex Parishes  Walthamstow

Parish History
Walthamstow (St Mary), is a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in West Ham district, Essex. The village stands 1½ miles E of Lea-Bridge railway station, and 6 miles NE of St. Paul's, London. It has a post-office under London. The parish is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of St. Mary, St. James, St. John, and St. Peter. It has three Independent chapels. and a Roman Catholic chapel.

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
 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 See also other churches in the Ancient parish

Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain