Wennington, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Wennington St Mary and St Peter is an Ancient Parish in Essex.

Wennington is a small village in the London Borough of Havering on the outskirts of east London. It is situated 14.8 miles (23.9 km) east of Charing Cross.

It lies at a junction on the A13 road south east of Rainham and Wennington Road. It consists of mostly scattered houses and the Wennington Hall farmhouse. The village has a population of around 300.

Wennington is located at the eastern end of the London Riverside section of the Thames Gateway redevelopment zone and is planned to be the site of the London Riverside Conservation Park.

The Wennington parish formed part of Romford Rural District from 1894 to 1934 and Hornchurch Urban District from 1934 until it was abolished in 1965. Wennington now forms part of the Rainham and Wennington ward of Havering.

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

Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

St Mary and St Peter Wennington Rd Baptisms 1654-1981 Marriages 1654-1984 Burials 1654-1982: ERO

Monumental Inscriptions EoLFHS Publications

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
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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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