Great Ilford, Essex Family History Guide
Great Ilford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names: Ilford
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1831
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1831
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Presbyterian, and Strict Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ILFORD (GREAT), a small town, a chapelry, and a ward in Barking parish, Essex.
The town stands on the river Roding, and on the Eastern Counties railway, near Epping forest, 3½ miles ENE of Stratford; is within the jurisdiction of the central criminal court and the Metropolitan police; and has a station of the name of Ilford on the railway, a post-office of the same name under London E, a police station, a reading room, a church, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and an endowed hospital with a chapel.
The church is a modern edifice, of white brick, in the lancet style; and has pinnacles at the corners, a large cross over the E window, and a tower with light spire. The hospital was founded, for lepers, in the time of Henry II., by an abbess of Barking; was reconstituted by Queen Elizabeth, for six poor men, and for a town chaplain; is an edifice of the 15th century, much modified by alterations and repairs; forms three sides of a quadrangle, with the chapel on the S side; is under the Marquis of Salisbury, as master and patron; and has an income of £65. The river Roding was made navigable to the town about the year 1738.
The chapelry was constituted in 1836; included then Barking-Side, Aldborough-Hatch, Chadwell-Street, and a portion of Hainault Forest; and was reconstituted, to the exclusion of Barking-Side, in 1841. Rated property, inc. of Barking-Side, £24,200. Pop., in 1861, exc. of Barking-Side, 3,688. Houses, 750. The property is much subdivided.
Fossil remains, comprising very large bones of oxen, horns and bones of stags, a spiral horn, 13 feet long, and the head, teeth, and bones of an elephant different from the elephants of Asia or Africa, were discovered, in 1812, in a field near the river Roding; and other fossil remains, including teeth and tusks of the hippopotamus, were found in a neighbouring field.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £430. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford.
The vicarage of Aldborough Hatch is a separate benefice.
The ward is more extensive than the chapelry. Pop. in 1851, 3,745; in 1861, 4,523. Houses, 903.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ILFORD, GREAT (St. Mary), an ecclesiastical parish, in the union of Romford, hundred of Becontree, S. division of Essex, 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from London, on the road to Chelmsford, containing 3742 inhabitants.
This place, until 1830 a chapelry in the parish of Barking, is pleasantly situated on the eastern bank of the river Roden: the village has one principal street, containing several good houses, and here is a station on the line of the Eastern Counties railway, which passes on the north in its course to Romford. A pleasure-fair is held in July, on the site of the well known Fairlop Oak, in Hainault Forest; and the petty sessions for the division are held in the village every Saturday.
The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of All Souls College, Oxford; net income, £430. The church was erected in 1831, at an expense of £3521, and is a handsome structure in the later English style, with a square embattled tower surmounted by a spire.
In the reign of Stephen, the abbess of Barking founded an hospital at Ilford for thirteen lepers: the present buildings, occupying three sides of a small quadrangular area, are appropriated to six poor persons, and contain also an ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, which has been improved and repaired.
In a field behind Valentines House, a stone coffin was found in 1724, containing a human skeleton; and in 1746, an urn filled with burnt bones. Various fossil remains, in a high state of preservation, have been discovered in a brickfield.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Clark William, Ilford, Essex, victualler, June 28, 1831.
Elverston Charles Ellerby, Ilford, Essex, linen draper, March 13, 1824.
White Robert, Ilford, Essex, draper, March 6, 1838.
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Romford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Essex
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Barking
- Poor Law Union: Romford
- Hundred: Becontree
- Province: Canterbury