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

Rainham (from ryne, a watercourse and ham, a village) 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 St Albans diocese, 3 miles north west from Purfleet, 12 by rail 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 SS Helen & Giles (the only one in England dedicated to these saints jointly), is an old Norman structure and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, porch and a low massive tower at the west end containing 3 bells, one dated 1618 and the others 1670: the nave, six bays in length, is divided from its aisles by heavy arcades of semicircular arches, resting on square columns, with circular shafts at the angles, banded and showing extensive traces of red colouring: a grand Norman arch, highly enriched with chevron moulding, opens into the chancel, the windows of which have been greatly disfigured: the tower is constructed of coursed rubble, with ashlar coigns and is entered from the nave by a plain semicircular Norman arch, one tall lancet and three Norman windows lighting its basement. The register dates from the year 1665. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £430, with residence, built in 1701 and four acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of the late John Godsalve Crosse, esq, and held by the Rev Henry George Roche, LL B of St Johns College, Cambridge;  the Rev Mortimer Manley, MA of Queens College , Cambridge, is curate in sole charge: the brilliant clerical satirist, Charles Churchill, was once curate here, and in describing in verse the effect of his rural discourses, says: “Sleep at my bidding crept from pew to pew”. In accordance with the directions of various ancient benefactions, bread is given to the poor every Sunday; 10s for preaching a sermon on Ascension Day and a smaller sum of 4s for the parish clerk on the same day. 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 3,312 acres; rateable value, £9,502, and the population, in 1881, was 1,246.

Parish clerk, William Gentry

Post , Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank – George Mayhew, receiver. Delivery commences at 7 & 11.30 am; dispatched at 2.25 & 6 pm to post office, Romford, & 9 pm direct to London.

Insurance Agent – Phoenix Fire, M Harvey, Lime Tree house

National School, William Jennings, certificated master; Mrs Amelia Jennings, certified  mistress

Railway Station, Frank Rowland, station master

Conveyance – Coach to & from Romford on wed only

Abbott Mrs, brick house

Brady Rev Nicholas MA [rector of Wennington], Rainham hall

Harvey William, Rainham ferry

Howell Thomas

Manley Rev Mortimer, MA [curate in charge], Vicarage

Robinson C F, Berwick house

Russell Robert, Brights

Wolton Thomas, South hall

Barnes W J, manufacturing chemist

Blows Charles, baker

Bourne John Dupre, coal & coke merchant & general carman

Brooks Ainger, wheelwright

Church James, Phoenix

Circuit John Cubis (trustees of), farmer & market gardeners

Clapham Jane (Mrs), Three Crowns, Rainham Ferry

Daldy & Co, coal merchants

Farrow George, draper & boot maker

Farrow William Richard, shopkeeper

Gentry William, baker

Havis James, Angel inn & lighterman

Hennesey Thomas, shopkeeper

Hill Francis John, grocer & farmer

Hill Mary Ann (Miss), linen draper etc

Howell William James, builder

Humphreys Ardley John, farmer, Aylets

Kelley Arthur, saddler & harness maker

King Lucy (Mrs), smith & farrier

Manning Abraham, farmer, Moor Hall

Manning William, farmer, Berwick ponds

Maskell Jeremiah, draper & grocer

Mayhew George, sub-postmaster & assistant overseer

Mayhew Samuel, butcher

Miller & Johnson, chemical manure works, Rainham Ferry

Parker Charles, hair dresser

Parker Lewis, boot & shoe maker

Parsons John Wallace, tailor

Randall James, Bell

Rowland Frank, station master

Russell Robert, farmer & market gardener

Salamon & Co, tar distillers, Ferry Road

Saxby George, lighterman

Swann Henry, manager to the trustees of the late John Cubis Circuit, farmers & market gardeners

Valentine John, beer retailer

Warner William, beer retailer

Wilson George Henry, chemical manure works, Rainham Ferry