Wanstead, Essex Genealogy
Guide to Wanstead, Essex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Wanstead, Essex | |
|---|---|
 Wanstead St Mary Essex | |
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Becontree |
| County | Essex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | West Ham |
| Registration District | West Ham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1640 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1813 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Barking |
| Diocese | Pre-1846 - London; Post-1845 - Rochester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex |
| Location of Archive | |
| Essex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Wanstead, a parish, with Walthom Forest village and Snaresbrook hamlet, in West Ham district, Essex; it is on the River Roding, 1½ miles NW of Ilford railway station and 7 miles NE of London. It has a post office under NE London. An Independent chapel was built in 1865.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Wanstead parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| ESSEX = EssexAncestors - (£)[2] | |||||
| FSPRs = England, Essex Parish Registers, 1503-1997 (FamilySearch) - free[3] |
| Wanstead Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| ESSEX | 1640-1898 | 1640-1953 | 1640-1992 | |||
| FSPRs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
Online images are available Essex Record Office
Essex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
- St Mary, Overton Drive
Baptisms 1640-1863
Marriages 1641-1838
Burials 1641-1863: ERO
- Christ Church, Built 1861 as chapel-of-ease to St Mary
- St Gabriel, Aldersbrook Road
Baptisms 1903- date
Marriages 1914- date: Not deposited
- Our Lady of Lourdes (Roman Catholic), Cambridge Park
Formed 1919
Non-conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
A Second Cousin Twice Removed. A family tree of John Collett Hickey married Mary Ann Hobbins, from 1806-1967, and descendants of Ward, Robinson, Yetton, Henry, Parmetner, Hunter, Buckledee, Kidd, Hackney, listed in the following areas, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Walthamstow, Leytonstone, Hackney, Wanstead and Felixstowe. Article in Roots and Branches vol.10.no.3, page 28 FHL Ref. 942.64/F5 D25r
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
West Ham Poor Law Union, Essex Genealogy
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Essex Ancestors - offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72). Adapted 15 May 2013.
- ↑ Essex Ancestors: Unearth Your Roots, Seax - Essex Archives Online From the Essex Record Office, accessed 3 March 2012.
- ↑ 'England, Essex Parish Registers (FamilySearch Historical Records),' FamilySearch, accessed 2 September 2014.
