Great Ilford, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes

Chapel History
Ilford, or Great Ilford, is a parish and small town on the Roding, in SW Essex, it is 8 miles ENE of St. Paul's. There are places of worship for Baptists, Congregationalist, and Wesleyans, as well as Free Methodist.

Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1893; FHL book 942 E5ca v. 3

ILFORD (GREAT), a small town, a chapelry, and a ward in Barking parish, Essex. The town stands on the river Roding, and on the Eastern Counties railway, near Epping forest, 3½ miles ENE of Stratford; is within the jurisdiction of the central criminal court and the Metropolitan police; and has a station of the name of Ilford on the railway, a post office of the same name under London E, a police station, a reading room, a church, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and an endowed hospital with a chapel.

Wilson, John M., See at: Imperial Gazetteer of England &amp;amp;Wales, publ. London &amp;Edinburgh:1870 &lt;/ref&gt;

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office

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.

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