Stratford St John, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Stratford St John or simply Stratford, is a town, a ward, and three chapelries, in West Ham parish, Essex. The town is on the river Lea, and on the Great Eastern railway, the railway is 4½ miles east of St. Paul's, London; it has a bridge which connects it with Stratford-le-Bow; and has a post-office under London East. There is an Independent chapel,along with Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, as well as a Roman Catholic chapel. The chapelries are St. John, Christchurch, and St. Paul.

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.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Unitarian
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association

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
Stratford on GENUKI

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