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
Parish clerk, William Gentry
Post &
Money order & Telegraph Office & Post Office savings Bank – George Mayhew,
receiver. Letters arrive at
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
Commercial
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,
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 1st 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,
Peters Sophia (Mrs), shopkeeper
Surridge Thomas, farmer
Wilson Geo Henry, chemical manure works, Rainham Ferry
Wolton Thomas, cattle dealer
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