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 SSE 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:

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 Road Baptisms 1830-1968, Marriages 1845-1977, Burials 1830-1972: ERO Baptisms 1968- date, Marriages 1977- date: Not deposited
 * St Andrew, Barking Road Baptisms 1870-1968, Marriages 1872-1974: ERO
 * St Katharine, Chapman Road Built 1891  Demolished 1965
 * St Martin, Boundary Road Baptisms 1898-1901, and all Marriages, with St Andrew, Baptisms 1901-1911: 1914-1943 ERO
 * St Philip (and St James), Whitwell Road 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 Street Baptisms 1860-1882: LMA
 * Methodist Chapel, Pelly Road/Harold Road/High Street Baptisms 1897-1947: NEW
 * Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, High Street Marriages 1899-1940: ERO

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * 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 ($)