Wanstead, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Wanstead, a parish, with Walthom Forest village and Snaresbrook hamlet, in West Ham district, Essex; it is on the River Roding, 1½ miles NW of Ilford railway station and 7 miles NE of London. It has a post office under NE London. An Independent chapel was built in 1865.

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
Wanstead parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)


 * St Mary, Overton Drive Baptisms 1640-1863 Marriages 1641-1838 Burials 1641-1863: ERO


 * Christ Church, Built 1861 as chapel-of-ease to St Mary


 * St Gabriel, Aldersbrook Road Baptisms 1903- date Marriages 1914- date: Not deposited


 * Our Lady of Lourdes (Roman Catholic), Cambridge Park Formed 1919

Non-conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Genealogy
A Second Cousin Twice Removed. A family tree of John Collett Hickey married Mary Ann Hobbins, from 1806-1967, and descendants of Ward, Robinson, Yetton, Henry, Parmetner, Hunter, Buckledee, Kidd, Hackney, listed in the following areas, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Walthamstow, Leytonstone, Hackney, Wanstead and Felixstowe. Article in Roots and Branches vol.10.no.3, page 28 FHL Ref. 942.64/F5 D25r

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
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex