Stratford

[JosiahS]

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

[geniecolgan]

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.

[JosiahS]

Many thanks for that - I'll see if I can get s sight of them.

All the best

Ashley

[elmo]

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.

[geniecolgan]

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.

[JosiahS]

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

[Boblima]

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

[crozier]

for Stratford, London east, try Archives and Local Studies, London Borough Newham, Stratford Library, 3 The Grove E15

[JosiahS]

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