Romford, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Romford, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Essex. The town is on a small affluent of the River Thames, and on the Eastern Counties railway, 12 miles ENE of Bishopsgate, London. It has a head post-office and there is a railway station with telegraph. There are three dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, an Independent chapel, as well as a Wesleyan chapel.

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
Online Images are available Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office St Edward the Confessor (St mary the Virgin and St Edward) See also the numerous churches in Romford.

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


 * St John the Divine, Mawney Road Baptisms, Marriages 1928-date: Not deposited
 * St Michael & All Angels, Main Road, Gidea Park Baptisms, Marriages 1930-date: Not deposited
 * St Thomas, Noak Hill. Formed 1841
 * The Ascension, Collier Row. Formed 1880 as mission church. Parish created 1927
 * St Edward (Roman Catholic), Park End Road Baptisms 1852-date, Marriages 1857-date: Not deposited; Death register: 1858-1877: WDA
 * Congregational Chapel, Hornchurch Lane Baptisms 1812-1818: PRO
 * Congregational Chapel, South Street Baptisms 1779-1854; Baptisms 1904-1943; Marriages 1904-1943; Burials 1781-1855: ERO
 * Methodist Chapel, Victoria Road Baptisms 1936-1961: ERO
 * Primitive Methodist Circuit Baptisms 1861-1916: ERO
 * Romford Baptist Chapel Marriages 1937-1943: ERO
 * Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Baptisms 1835-1837: 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
 * Particular Baptist
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Romford on GENUKI

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