Upminster, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Upminster (St. Lawrence), is a parish, in the union of Romford, hundred of Chafford, S division of Essex, it is 3½ miles ESE from Romford. It contains the hamlets of Corbetstye (or Corbets Tey), Upminster Common and Harton. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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
Upminster parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:


 * Congregational Chapel, Station Road: Baptisms 1801-1837: ERO; [originally at Upminster Hill rebuilt 1911 in Station Road now, Trinity United Reformed Church]


 * Methodist Chapel, Station Road; built circa 1910


 * St Joseph, (Roman Catholic), Champion Road, Formed 1923


 * St Laurence, Corbets Tey Road Baptisms 1543-1908 Marriages 1568-1931 Burials 1543-1897: ERO

Non-conformist Churches

 * 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)

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 ($)