History of Stratford, West Ham, Canning Town, Silvertown etc & lots of historical London Pubs

Rainham, is a village, parish, and station on the London and Southend railway, in the Southern division of the county, Chafford Hundred, Romford Union, and county court district, Chafford rural deanery, Essex archdeaconry and Rochester diocese, 3 miles north west from Purfleet, 13 from London, 7 ½ north west from Grays, and 5 east of Barking:  The village forms a considerable street on the London Road, and the Ingerbourne brook, over which is a bridge, and has a quay on the creek, at its mouth, in the Thames. The church of S S Helen & Gils (the only one in England dedicated to these saints jointly), is an old structure, supposed to have been built in the reign of Henry II, with chancel, nave, south aisle and porch: the arch separating the nave from the chancel is Norman: the tower contains 3 bells.  The register dates from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £412, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late John Godsalve Crosse, esq, and held by the Rev Henry George Roche, BC<; the Rev Mortimer Manley, MA of Queens College , Cambridge, is curate in sole charge. The poor have £10 10s yearly in bread. R W Hall Dare, esq, who is lord of the manor, the trustees of the late J G Crosse esq. and Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, bart, are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, gravely. The chief crops are vegetables, great quantities of which are grown for the London markets. The area is 3,253 acres, gross estimated rental, £8,666; rateable value, £7,874, and the population, in 1871, was 1,122.

Parish clerk, William Gentry

Post & Money order & Telegraph Office & Post Office savings Bank – George Mayhew, receiver. Letters arrive at 6 am & 11.30 pm; dispatched at 3 & 6 pm to post office, Romford, & 9 pm direct to London.

Parochial School, William Jennings, master; Mrs Amelia Jennings, mistress

Railway Station, Henry Stevens, station master

Conveyance – Coach to & from Romford on wed only

Cross Mrs

Irish Mrs, Rainham Hall

Manley Rev Mortimer, MA [curate in charge]

Davies Rev Stephen, DCL

Adams Eliza (Mrs)

Axton Thomas, baker

Barling Sophia (Miss), dress maker

Blewitt Edward, farmer, Dovers

Blewitt William, farmer & market gardener, Bright’s Farm

Brooks Ainger, wheelwright

Church James, Phoenix

Circuit John Cubis, farmer & market gardener

Clapham William, Three Crowns, Rainham Ferry

Daldy & Co, coal merchants, & at Brentwood & Romford

Davies Rowland Alfred, lighterman

Desmond Daniel, sergeant instructor of 1^st London Rifle Brigade

Ennever Robert, grocer & post master

Farrow George, draper & boot maker

Farrow William Richard, shopkeeper

Gentry William, baker

Gilbert Thomas, lighterman

Havis Harriet Susannah (Mrs), Angel inn

Heathcote Elizabeth (Mrs), shopkeeper

Hennesey Thomas, shopkeeper

Hill Francis John, shopkeeper

Holder William, draper, grocer etc

Howell William James, builder

King Lucy (Mrs), blacksmith

Manning Abraham, farmer, Moor Hall

Mayhew Samuel, butcher

Miller & Johnson, chemical manure works, rainham Ferry

Mitchell Edward & Co, coal merchants

Mitchell Henry, farmer

Neville Henry, shopkeeper

Parker Charles, hair dresser

Parker Lewis, boot & shoe maker

Parsons Henry Wallace, shopkeeper

Parsons John Wallace, tailor

Pease Thomas John, Bell

Peters Sophia (Mrs), shopkeeper

Surridge Thomas, farmer

Wilson Geo Henry, chemical manure works, Rainham Ferry

Wolton Thomas, cattle dealer