Hornchurch, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hornchurch, is a village, a parish and a subdistrict in Romford district, Essex. The village stands between the rivers Rom and Ingerbourn, 2 miles SE of Romford railway station. The parish contains also the hamlet of Havering Well. The subdistrict contains 5 other parishes.

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
Hornchurch 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 Alban (Roman Catholic) Langdale Gardens Elm Park Formed 1939

St George Kenilworth Gdns Built 1935 as chapel-of-ease to St Andrew

St Mary Mother of God (Roman Catholic) Hornchurch Rd Formed 1931

St Nicholas Elm Park Baptisms 1942-1979 Marriages 1947-1989: ERO

St Peter Gubbins Lane Harold Wood Baptisms 1895- date Marriages 1939- date: Not deposited

Non-Conformist Churches
General Baptist

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Hornchurch on GENUKI

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