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Title: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Friday 30 October 09 18:40 GMT (UK)
Hello there!

Could someone tell me which parish I should look in for someone born in Stratford about 1802?

Are the records available online?

Many thanks

Ashley
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: geniecolgan on Saturday 31 October 09 03:14 GMT (UK)
Hi Ashley,

nearest to Stratford that I know of would be West Ham

http://www.westhamchurch.org.uk/history1.html

I don't know if the registers for this church are available online.
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Saturday 31 October 09 08:49 GMT (UK)
Many thanks for that - I'll see if I can get s sight of them.

All the best

Ashley
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: elmo on Saturday 31 October 09 08:59 GMT (UK)
Hi Ashley,

Assuming that you mean Stratford in east London, a good place to look would be St. Mary, Stratford Le Bow...  The Parish Records are available on Ancestry in the Tower Hamlets Index, good luck.
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: geniecolgan on Saturday 31 October 09 14:45 GMT (UK)
Ashley,

try asking on the London/Middlesex board.
Stratford became West Ham then West Ham became a Greater London Borough.
The LMA may have some records.
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Saturday 31 October 09 18:28 GMT (UK)
I've been through the St Mary le Bow records and she is not there, but thanks for the hint!

I'll try the London board.

Cheers

Ashley
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: Boblima on Friday 20 November 09 17:34 GMT (UK)
Hello JosiahS

  I see all your respondents quite rightly have concentrated on Stratford, London E 15 ( the site of the about to built Olympic Village ) but just to cloudy the waters, there is also Stratford St Mary, a tiddly little village, in Suffolk, but certainly within spitting distance of Essex, it's just up the A12, just beyond Dedham.

Regards,

 Boblima
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: crozier on Friday 22 January 10 07:44 GMT (UK)
for Stratford, London east, try Archives and Local Studies, London Borough Newham, Stratford Library, 3 The Grove E15
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Friday 22 January 10 08:13 GMT (UK)
Hi Boblima

Thanks for the suggestion but she states Essex as the county so I don't have to worry about that one!

Hello Crozier

I did get a sight of an index for West Ham marriages at the SoG and there was a marriage for a Thomas Paer (sic) in 1795 so I am optimisitic!  I'll try to get to Newham Archive in the next week or so.

Thanks to eveyone with their help on this!

Ashley
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: crozier on Friday 22 January 10 11:21 GMT (UK)
Best to phone them first rather than just show up. Know that from experience! Sorry I've forgotten the phone number...
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: behindthefrogs on Friday 22 January 10 11:50 GMT (UK)
The parish of St John Stratford was formed out of the parish of West Ham around 1844 althought he construction of the church was approved in 1832 and opened as a chapel of ease in 1834.

By 1865 the parish of Stratford had been further divided to create two further parishes

David
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Friday 22 January 10 18:35 GMT (UK)
Thanks for the hint Crozier!
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: kesannah on Tuesday 26 January 10 20:32 GMT (UK)
The phone number for the Archives and local studies is as follows.

0208 430 6881.

Hope this helps.
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Thursday 28 January 10 13:59 GMT (UK)
Thanks Kesannah!
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: farmeroman on Monday 08 February 10 14:11 GMT (UK)
The Essex Records Office in Chelmsford has a comment next to Stratford which states "see West Ham until 1838".

You can check whether specific Essex registers are available online here: http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/displayParishContents.asp, but at present for West ham All Saints there are only one set of 17th century BMD records online.
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Wednesday 10 February 10 10:18 GMT (UK)
Thanks for confirming that.

I'm hoping to get up to Newham this week or next

Cheers

Ashley
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: kevan on Saturday 20 February 10 01:55 GMT (UK)
All,
   I am aware that I am advertising a FREE site - but you could try:
http://historyofstratford.co.uk/

Best
Kvan
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: Ceryswyn on Wednesday 05 May 10 07:45 BST (UK)
While I was at the Essex RO I was finding most of my Stratford peoples in the West Ham All Saint's parish records.
Title: Re: Stratford
Post by: JosiahS on Wednesday 05 May 10 12:56 BST (UK)
Thanks for confirming that.

I really do need to get my act together and go up to Newham!