Great Ilford, Essex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ILFORD, GREAT (St. Mary) or Great Ilford, is an ecclesiastical parish, in the union of Romford, hundred of Becontree, and S division of Essex, it is 8 miles NE by E from London. This place, until 1830, was a chapelry in the parish of Barking, it is situated on the eastern bank of the River Roden; there is a station on the line of the Eastern Counties railway. The church was erected in 1831. The ancient chapel is dedicated to St. Mary.

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
Great Ilford St Mary, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Great Ilford St Alban the Martyr, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Great Ilford St Clement, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Great Ilford St Luke, Essex parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Great Ilford St Margaret of Antioch, Essex 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

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
 * Presbyterian
 * Strict Baptist
 * 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
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)

Great Ilford on GENUKI