Romford, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex



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

Romford formed a chapelry in the large ancient parish of Hornchurch in the Becontree hundred of Essex; it included Collier Row, Harold Wood, and Noak Hill. Over time the vestry of Romford chapelry absorbed the local powers that would usually be held by the parish authorities and in 1849 Romford became a separate parish.

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 St Edward the Confessor (St mary the Virgin and St Edward) See also the numerous churches in Romford.

St John the Divine Mawney Rd Baptisms Marriages 1928- date: Not deposited

St Michael &amp; 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 Rd Baptisms 1852- date Marriages 1857- date: Not deposited Death register: 1858-1877: WDA

Congregational Chapel Hornchurch Lane Baptisms 1812-1818: PRO

Congregational Chapel South St Baptisms 1779-1854 Baptisms 1904-1943 Marriages 1904-1943 Burials 1781-1855: ERO

Methodist Chapel Victoria Rd 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

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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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