East Ham, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
East Ham also known as Ham, East (St. Mary Magdalene), is a parish, in the union of West Ham, the hundred of Becontree, southern division of Essex, it is 6 miles E from London. There is a Lady chapel as well as a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Essex Record Office (online records available at Essex Archives Online).

St Mary Magdalene High St South Baptisms 1701-1960 Marriages 1696-1982 Burials 1700-1960: ERO Baptisms 1960- date Marriages 1982- date Burials 1960-1975: Not deposited

Monumental Inscriptions: EoLFHS Publications

St Andrew Roman Rd Beckton Baptisms 1934-1952 Marriages 1946-1952: ERO

St Bartholomew Barking Rd Baptisms 1945-1952 Marriages 1903-1977: ERO Baptisms 1952- date Marriages 1977- date: Not deposited

St George and St Ethelbert Burford Rd Baptisms 1923-1955 Marriages 1924-1967: ERO Baptisms 1955- date Marriages 1967- date: Not deposited

St John the Baptist High Street North Marriages 1871-1902: ERO

St Michael and All Angels Beckton Rd Beckton Baptisms 1909-1941 Marriages 1924-1941: ERO

St Paul Burges Rd Baptisms 1924- date Marriages 1925- date: Not deposited

St Michael (Roman Catholic) Tilbury Rd Formed 1926

Primitive Methodist Chapel High St. South Marriages 1913-1940: ERO

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Abbotts Park Baptisms 1893-1904: ERO

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Lady chapel
 * Wesleyans

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
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 ($)

East Ham on GENUKI