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England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Little Ilford St Mary the Virgin

 

The Parish

The parish of Little Ilford lies in the extreme southwest of Essex, not too far from its border with neighbouring Middlesex. Little ilford is located roughly 7 miles east of the city of London and just south of the A118 road which connects London with Romford. Once Little Ilford was a discrete urban-edge village, early gazetteers describe it as largely arable in its land-use, today this is rather difficult to believe as Greater London expanded with the railway development eastwards engulfing smaller Essex communities like Little Ilford along the way. Much of the development came towards the end of the 19th century and into the 20th and continues to this day with modern apartment blocks replacing elderly Victorian terraces. Only the medieval church in its ancient churchyard survives of the former village centre and modern developments abound, the railway lines to both Colchester & Southend run through to the north and south respectively, whilst the busy dual-carriageway of the North Circular Road runs immediately east. Little Ilford is drained southwards by Barking Creek which soon meets the outer Thames Estuary. Little Ilford is sited at around 5 metres above the sea in fairly gentle terrain where local heights rise to little more than 15 metres for some distance. Little Ilford was a small parish, squeezed between larger ones, covering just over 750 acres it was small even by Essex standards, within that area a population of just under 200 parishioners would have resides, a paltry total compared to today's burgeoning population. Little Ilford is not mentioned in Domesday Book.


The Church

St Mary the Virgin's church sits on the southern side of Church Road roughly 200 metres west of Little Ilford Park, the road bears the number B165 as it meanders towards Upton Park. Pevsner describes the church as "a surprising survival" and so it is indeed, a 12th century survival amidst modern development. Only the nave remains in close to original fabric, largely 12th century and Norman Romanesque in style. The chancel, by contrast was replaced in brick in the 17th century whilst the northern chapel was added in the 18th century. All is topped with a timber bell turret. Church Road is lined with parking slots enabling a quick visit, the churchyard, with a wall of rough stone blocks has metal gates granting entry to what is a rather thickly wooded area making for a distinct challenge for the photographer to adequately capture the building.


The Records

Register No Covering Dates Deposited With Register Style Quality Standard Comments
1 27th April 1755 - 2nd January 1809 Essex Record Office - Reference D/P175/1/2 Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None
2 30th June 1816 - 24th September 1834 Essex Record Office - Reference D/P175/1/4 Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered marriage register Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads None


Wanstead St Mary
Barking St Margaret
Barking St Margaret
East Ham St Mary Magdalene
Barking St Margaret
East Ham St Mary Magdalene
East Ham St Mary Magdalene
Barking St Margaret

1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830

Register Reference Date Groom Forename Groom Surname Groom Status Groom Abode Bride Forename Bride Surname Bride Status Bride Abode
27/04/1755 William HEWER Single Mary HAMILTON Widow East Ham
20/05/1756 Walter JONES Widower Barking Ann KEMPSTER Single
28/12/1757 Richard BENDALL Single Elizabeth TROOP Single Barking
02/01/1758 James MORGAN Single Barking Elizabeth EVANS Single
07/01/1759 John HAMNER Single St Andrew Holborn, City Of London Susannah HIGGS Single
12/10/1760 James ROBERTS Widower Elizabeth ISDELL Widow
01/01/1761 Edward BENNET Single Agnes CROUDSON Single
04/10/1761 James BOREHAM Single East Ham Martha WARREN Single
02/06/1762 Thomas TIDDER Single Woolwich, Kent Elizabeth WILLIAMS Single
14/07/1762 Richard HALSEY Single Sarah WREN Single
07/08/1762 John ISDAL Single Dorothy SEYMOUR Single
05/10/1762 Henry WINN Single Hannah WRIGHT Single
03/01/1763 William CURTIS Margaretting Jane FRANCIS Single
29/12/1763 John WOOD Barking Susannah FRANCIS
08/09/1766 James LENNEY Frances ROOME
06/09/1767 James BERON Ann JAGGER
19/09/1767 Thomas DEKEN Single Barking Jane ABLERLY
19/11/1767 Hugh HOWSE Single Ilminster, Somerset Elizabeth UTTERMERE Single
22/11/1767 Simon CORD Single Susannah MARTIN Single
03/04/1768 John COTTON Elizabeth LASH
04/04/1768 Thomas STEPHENS Jane RUFFLEY
17/04/1768 James LOCKWOOD Flora ROBERTS
14/10/1768 Daniel SPENCER Lydia LAMBERTH
13/11/1768 Joseph GILL Jemima MORELL
19/09/1769 Samuel STREMSON St Luke, Middlesex Margaret BURLEIGH
04/10/1770 Thomas FULLER Single Ann ABRAHAMS Single
19/12/1771 Richard GREENHILL Hannah BURCHEL East Ham
24/02/1772 John COLDECOT Elizabeth WOOD
19/07/1772 Samuel RANTOLS Mary STRUTHAM
27/10/1772 William SELL Single Elizabeth CHATTERS
18/11/1772 John BENNETT Elizabeth HAYWARD
30/07/1774 William HARRISON East Ham Jane DYER
08/06/1775 Andrew EVE Single Mary MARSH Single
20/07/1775 John YARNTON Single Mabel WHELDON Single
08/10/1775 John STOCK Elizabeth PAVIT Dagenham
24/10/1775 John HALL Ann TUFFNELL West Ham
30/10/1775 Joseph BISHOP Single Mary LUM Single
14/11/1775 John GRIFFITHS Single Jane CROW Single
10/12/1775 Edward COPAS Mary HAMOND
25/12/1775 Charles WEAVER Susanna CORD
25/12/1775 James BANKS Elizabeth HARDING
18/09/1776 Thomas BENEY Single Ann ANNETT Widow
27/10/1776 John SHEARLEY Jane ATKYNS
30/06/1778 Corston HOLTHOUSE Single St George The Martyr, Middlesex Mary DOLGE
13/08/1778 Robert EPPE Single Margaret JOLLY Stepney, Middlesex
29/09/1778 John HEADEN West Ham Ann COALMAN East Ham
22/04/1780 Thomas GROUT Ann PARKER East Ham
11/07/1780 William PARROTT Single Catherine GREEN Single
30/08/1780 Thomas SKINNER Single Barking Mary BENNETT Single
28/09/1780 Augustus MANNING Shadwell, Middlesex Elizabeth BENNETT
16/04/1781 Thomas STEPHENS Widower Florana KENARA Widow
12/08/1781 Charles WEAVER Esther FIRKIN
02/09/1781 Thomas CORDELEE Widower Cathrine BAILEY Widow
09/09/1781 John ALLEN Single Mary WEAVER Single
16/07/1782 William CAR Single Patience Ann WINCHLEY Single
17/09/1782 Thomas HUTTLEY Single Mary HALE Single
24/11/1782 Thomas LAMB Single Anne FRANCIS Single
07/10/1783 William CRICK Single Jane EDWARDS Single
31/08/1784 William PANE Single Jane PIERCE Single
31/10/1784 Richard CORNWALL Single Mary TANDY Single
14/11/1784 William WOODWARD Greenwich, Kent Sarah COSSEY
07/02/1785 John WYATT Single Elizabeth WHEATLEY Widow
13/03/1785 Samuel ROBERTSON Single Hannah WHITE Widow
06/06/1785 Thomas ANDERSON Single Jane MALLAT Single
23/05/1786 Richard BRIDGES Widower Mary WEST Widow
11/01/1787 John PETTIT Widower Alice LANE Widow
28/01/1787 Thomas LUCAS Single Jane MAYES Single
18/02/1787 James LIVERMORE Widower Bocking Mary PEARSON Single
29/03/1788 William WEST Anne OSBORN
07/09/1788 Edward SAREWAY Mary DARVEL
31/08/1791 Henry BRINDLE Mary TURNER
05/03/1792 William WOODWARD Single Elizabeth HUNT Single
20/05/1795 William MATTHEWS Single Alice HUNT
19/11/1795 Francis BARONNEAU South Mimms, Middlesex Elizabeth WILSON
19/03/1796 Thomas JOHNSON Mary PARKER South Weald
01/09/1796 Thomas PEARSON Elizabeth BRIGGS Barking
02/07/1798 Thomas BRADSHAW Single Anne SANAWAY Single
25/01/1801 John PARSONS Single Mary HUNT Single
03/08/1802 John TURNER Single Mary SMITH Single
04/09/1803 John HUNT Single Catherine HOY Single
18/03/1804 Benjamin COPE Single Mary EDMONDS Single
29/07/1804 Thomas SMITH Elizabeth JONES
08/12/1804 James EVES Anne WAKLIN
10/03/1805 Thomas CLAYTON Harriet TOLWELL
20/07/1805 William FINNINGS Single Eliza TYLER Hornchurch
17/09/1805 Peter CONWAY Widower Mary STONE Single
20/09/1805 Samuel TURNER Mary POWELL
05/11/1806 William GRIFFIN Single Edmonton, Middlesex Ann Mary SKINNER Single
18/01/1808 William JOHNSON St George, Liverpool, Lancashire Hannah ROBINSON
21/06/1808 John CLARKE Single Sarah HOWELL Single
02/01/1809 John MASTERMAN City Of London Elizabeth HARRIS
1 30/06/1816 Josias PRIDGEON Widower West Ham Ann GARDINER Widow
2 27/07/1817 James FRANCIS Lucy BAKER
3 04/10/1819 Edward GORARD Single Sarah HEATH Single
4 17/05/1826 Thomas GOSLIN Single Church Langton, Leicestershire Mary PENNACK Single
5 19/06/1828 John BRAITHWAITE Widower Caroline WANSTALL Single Kent
6 13/10/1830 George DELLER Eliza COLLINS
7 24/07/1833 William EDWARDS Widower Kensington, Middlesex Grace WHEBBY Single
8 04/12/1833 Charles SHRUBB Single Boldre, Hampshire Charlotte Aubrey BAYLIFF Single
9 19/08/1834 William BONNINGTON Single Sarah FARANT Single
10 24/09/1834 Samuel Powell BEETON Widower St Lawrence Jewry, City Of London Eliza DOUSE Single

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