Plaistow St Mary, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Plaistow, is a village, a chapelry, and a ward, in West Ham parish, Essex. The village is 1½ miles S S E of Stratford, and 6¼ miles E by N of St. Paul's, London; the post-office under London East. There are chapels for Independents and Quakers.

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
Plaistow St Mary 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).

Online images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office Plaistow St Mary See also other churches in the Plaistow area

St Mary's Rd Baptisms 1830-1968 Marriages 1845-1977 Burials 1830-1972: ERO Baptisms 1968- date Marriages 1977- date: Not deposited

St Andrew Barking Rd Baptisms 1870-1968 Marriages 1872-1974: ERO

St Katharine Chapman Rd Built 1891 Demolished 1965

St Martin Boundary Rd Baptisms 1898-1901 and all Marriages with St Andrew Baptisms 1901-1911: 1914-1943 ERO

St Philip (and St James) Whitwell Rd Baptisms 1903-1972 Marriages 1974-1983: ERO Burials allotted area at: The East London Cemetery Plaistow Baptisms 1972- date Marriages 1983- date: Not deposited

Congregational Chapel Baptisms 1833-1837: PRO

Independent Chapel Swanscombe St Baptisms 1860-1882: LMA

Methodist Chapel Pelly Rd/Harold Rd/High St Baptisms 1897-1947: NEW

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel High St Marriages 1899-1940: ERO

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Plaistow St Mary on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)