Grays Thurrock, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Grays Thurrock, or Grays, is a small town and a parish in Orsett district, Essex. The town stands on the Thames, and on the London and Southend railway, between Fiddler's Reach and Northfleet Hope, it is 3 miles WNW of Tilbury Fort and 10 miles SE of Romford.

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
Grays Thurrock 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
 * St Peter and Paul, also available All Saints,
 * Salisbury Road Strict Baptist Church register of burials,
 * Grays and Romford Primitive Methodist Church baptisms register,
 * London Road Wesleyan Methodist Church Baptisms and Marriages,
 * New Road United Methodist Church baptisms and marriages.

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)


 * Independent/Congregational
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

Poor Law Unions

 * Orsett 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 ($)

Grays Thurrock on GENUKI