Rainham, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Rainham is also known as Raynham, it is a village and a parish in Romford district, Essex. The village stands on Ingerbury brook, 1¼ of a mile from its influx to the Thames, and on the London and Southend railway, 5 miles E S E of Barking; it forms a considerable street; and has a station on the railway, there is a post-office under Romford.

Rainham St Helen and St Giles is an Ancient parish in Essex, the church is mediaeval and is the only surviving building from that period of the settlement history of the villeage and town.

Rainham formed an ancient parish of 3,253 acres (1,316 ha) in the Chafford hundred of Essex. In 1836 the vestry lost control of poor relief, with Rainham becoming part of the Romford Poor Law Union and in 1875 the parish became part of Romford rural sanitary district.

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

Census records
Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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