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England London Boroughs   Waltham Forest

Guide to The London Borough of Waltham Forest history, family history, and genealogy parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



History
As with all the other London Boroughs, Waltham Forest was cobbled together from a number of local areas with no concern for history or for the desires of the population. Family History researchers will need to review the specific segments listed below that were all part of the original County of Essex.

The London Borough of Waltham Forest is a London borough in north east London, and forms part of Outer London. The major areas are Leyton, Walthamstow and Chingford.

Many Stone Age remains are found in the area. Ancient Roman relics have also been found in locations scattered around the borough, proving that it was a significant area of Roman occupation.

In 1213 King John visited Shern Hall, the manor house in Hoe Street that survived until it was demolished in 1896. Until the 19th century Walthamstow was largely rural, with a small village center (now Walthamstow Village) and a number of large estates. The main route through the district was Hoe Street. There were various smaller lanes crossing the town. The road now known as Forest Road was originally called Clay Street. Further south, the High Street was named Marsh Street, and led from the original settlement out to the marshes. Shernhall Street is an ancient route, as is Wood Street, to the east. In the 1660s Sir William Batten, Surveyor of the Navy, and his wife Elizabeth Woodcocke had a house in Wood Street where, according to Samuel Pepys, they lived "like princes" and cultivated a vineyard. The Vestry House, now the Vestry House Museum, was used as the first town hall. By 1870 the place had grown to the size of a small suburb and a new town hall was built in Orford Road from which affairs of the village were run.

The southern part of Epping Forest still extends into the south of the borough, 90% of it having been preserved by Epping Forest Act of 1878. This not only assisted in preserving the forest but also helped develop the towns around it: Chingford, Forest Gate, Walthamstow, Leytonstone, and Leyton. The area's location between the City of London and Epping Forest encouraged large-scale urban development.

The area now known as Waltham Forest experienced at least two Zeppelin raids during World War I. On 17/18 August 1915, Airship L10 took a route roughly following the Gospel Oak to Barking railway line, dropping incendiary and high-explosive bombs. The first bomb, an incendiary, fell on Hoe St, Walthamstow, at the junction of Orford and Queens Road; the last was dropped in Aldersbrook area. Ten people were killed in Leyton and another 48 injured across the wider area. On 23/24 September 1916 the German Navy airship L 31 dropped around ten bombs along the line of Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, killing eight there. She also dropped bombs on Streatham and Brixton the same night.

The London Government Act 1963 established the borough in 1965 from the combined areas of the former Municipal Borough of Chingford, Municipal Borough of Leyton and Municipal Borough of Walthamstow, which all transferred to Greater London from the English county of Essex.

Cemeteries (Civil)
The web site for all inquiries for Brent Cemeteries follows:

https://www.brent.gov.uk/services-for-residents/births-marriages-and-deaths/deaths/list-of-brent-cemeteries/. Individual cemetrey information follows:

Alperton Cemetery


 * Clifford Road
 * Alperton, Wembley, HA0 1AF

Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery


 * Oxhey Lane
 * Watford WD19 5RL

Paddington Old Cemetery


 * Willesden Lane
 * Kilburn, London NW6 7SD

Willesden New Cemetery


 * Franklyn Road
 * Willesden, London NW10 9TE

Parishes
St Andrew's


 * 28 Old Church Ln
 * London NW9 8RZ
 * Phone: +44 20 8205 7447

St Cuthbert's


 * 214 Carlton Avenue West
 * North Wembley HA0 3QY
 * Tel: 020 8904 8599

St John's Wembley


 * 1 Crawford Avenue
 * Wembley HA0 2HX
 * Phone: 020 8902 7105

St Michael the Archangel


 * St Michael's Avenue
 * Wembley HA9 6SL
 * 020 8902 8921

St Augustine's


 * 152 Wembley Hill Road
 * Wembley, London, HA9 8EW
 * 020 8908 1383

Church of the Annunciation


 * South Kenton HA9 8QT

Church of the Ascension


 * The Avenue
 * Wembley HA9 9QL
 * 07598128104

St James' Alperton


 * 32 Stanley Ave
 * Wembley HA0 4JB

Holy Innocents


 * 54 Roe Green
 * London NW9 0PJ
 * 020 8204 7531

St Mary's Willesden


 * Neasden Lane
 * London NW10 2TS

St Matthew's


 * St Mary's Road
 * Harlesden NW10 4AU
 * Tel : 020 89653748

All Soul's


 * Station Road
 * Harlesden NW10 4UJ

St Martin's


 * Kensal Rise
 * Bathurst Gardens NW10 5HX
 * Phone: 020 8960 3929

Christ Church with St. Laurence


 * Christchurch Avenue and Willesden Lane
 * London NW6 7YN.

St Anne's


 * 125 Salusbury Road
 * West Kilburn NW6 6RG
 * Phone: 020 73726864

St Gabriel's


 * Walm Lane
 * Cricklewood NW2 4RX
 * Phone: +44(0)20 8830 6626

St Michael's Stonebridge


 * Hillside
 * Stonebridge NW10 8LB
 * Phone: 020 8965 7443

St Catherine's Neasden


 * Neasden Ln
 * London NW10 1QB
 * Phone: +44 20 8452 7322

Non Conformists
Christian non-conformist groups that meet in Oxford include:


 * Baptist
 * Bethel Gospel Church
 * Church of Christ
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon)
 * Ecumenical
 * Evangelical Free Church
 * Maranatha Christian
 * New Life Christian Center
 * Redeemed Christian Church of God
 * Salvation Army
 * Unitarian

Non Christian groups follow:


 * Buddhist
 * Confucian
 * Hare Krishna
 * Jewish
 * Hindu
 * Muslim

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths records have been kept by the UK government since July 1837 to the present day. Prior to that, local parishes of the Church of England, and local branches of other faiths were the only repositories of this information.


 * Brent Council BMD records


 * ukbmd org: Brent Records


 * City of London: Brent records

Local Histories

 * Brent Heritage


 * British History: Willisden


 * visionofbritain: Wembley


 * British History: Kilburn and St. John's Wood


 * visionofbritain: Harlesden


 * hidden london: Neasden


 * Brent UK Pictorial History by Len Snow


 * The London Borough of Brent by Malcolm Barres-Baker and Rosamund King

Maps and Gazetteers

 * geopunk uk: Brent London map


 * google maps: Brent Borough


 * oldmapsonline: Brent


 * francis frith: old Wembley maps


 * francis frith: old Kilburn maps


 * old map of Harlesden


 * francis frith: Old Neasden maps


 * Brent Council Gazetteer


 * visionofbritain: Wembley Gazetteer


 * hidden-london: Kilburn gazetteer


 * britishhistoryonline: Harlesden GAzetteer


 * hidden-london: Neasden Gazetteer

Newspapers

 * Brent and Kilburn Times


 * London Live: Brent


 * getwestlondon: Wembley


 * The Harrow Times

Occupations
The major area of employment opportunities in the general Brent Borough area is in the professional athletic field. Eng;land's most famous sporting location is the rebuilt and renewed Wembley Stadium, home to most of Britain's major sporting events.

Brent is also the headquarters of Diageo, PLC., the world's largest producer of high alcohol content spirits, and also producer of major brands of beer. While the conglomerate has many producing sites through the UK, and indeed, the world, the HQ facility provides many employment opportunities for locals.

Close by is the UK's busiest airport, Heathrow with a multitude of career opportunities.

The general location is also home to the UK's major film industry, with most of the BBC's entertainment films made in this location. additionally the HQ for Elstree studios, a generic name synonymous with British movie making, is located in the district.

Despite the regional and national decline of this sector over the last twenty years, the manufacturing sector continues to play an important role in the local economy, albeit a less significant one that previously. Indeed, West London is the only place in the UK – with the exception of Northern Ireland - that hasn't succumbed to a mass wave of manufacturing redundancies in recent year. With around 53,000 people out of a total local workforce of 750,000 plying their trade within this sector, a high number of these jobs are concentrated in and around the Park Royal area in Ealing Brentford – the largest industrial estate in Europe. Carillion and GlaxoSmithKline remain the leading employers in this sector.

With the West End and Soho being the cultural, entertainment and leisure hub of the capital attracting some 200 million visitors a year – 50 per cent from overseas – it is hardly surprising that the tourism sector is the biggest provider of jobs in West London. Overall this sector employs around 232,000 (31 per cent of the district workforce) people in the district.

Societies

 * Willisden local history society


 * [https://www.lwmfhs.org.uk/index.php/area-covered London Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society

Archives

 * Brent Borough Archives


 * The National Archives: Brent


 * The National Archives: Wembley

Web Sites

 * Brent Borough Council


 * Greater London Council


 * wikipedia: Middlesex


 * wikipedia: Wembley


 * wikipedia: Willesden


 * wikipedia: Kilburn, London


 * wikipedia:Harlesden


 * wikipedia: Neasden