Rainham (from ryne, a watercourse and ham, a village) is a village, parish, and station on the London, Tilbury and Southend railway, in the Southern division of the county, Orsett petty sessional division, Chafford hundred, Romford union and county court district,  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 ancient structure of flint and stone of the twelfth century, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, porch and a low but massive western 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 from the tithe rent-charge £430, with four acres of glebe and residence, built in 1701, in the gift of the trustees of the late John Godsalve Crosse, esq, and held since 1847 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 an poet, Charles Churchill, of Trinity College, Cambridge, 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 3,240 acres and 145 water; rateable value, £10,017, and the population, in 1881, was 1,253.

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, 5 & 9.40 pm direct to London.

National School (mixed) for 220 children, average attendance 218, William Jennings, certificated master; Mrs Amelia Jennings, certified  mistress; Frederick Stratford, Hornchurch, attendance officer

Railway Station, Charles Maple Ansell, station master

Conveyance – Coach to & from Romford on wed only from the ‘Phoenix’

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

Crawford Alexander, Rainham ferry

Coble John, Brick house

Fowles James, South hall

Harvey William, Rainham ferry

Howell Thomas

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

Robinson C F, Berwick house

Russell Robert, Brights

Commercial

Ansell Maple Charles, station master

Arnott & Buttonm manufacturing chemists, Faraday chemical works, Rainham ferry

Barnes W J, manufacturing chemist

Burrell George, Bell PH

Blows Charles, baker

Brooks Ainger, wheelwright

Church Sarah (Mrs), Phoenix PH

Chout William, smith & farrier

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

Clapham Jane (Mrs), Three Crowns PH, Rainham Ferry

Daldy & Co, coal merchants

Earps Catherine (Mrs), coal & coke merchant

Farrow George, draper & boot maker

Farrow William Richard, shopkeeper

Gentry William, baker

Hempleman Frederick S & Co, manufacturers of dried blood, fish guano manures; works, Rainham ferry & at West Ham, London E

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 (William Harvey, manager)

Parker Charles, hair dresser

Parker Lewis, boot & shoe maker

Parsons John Wallace, tailor

Rainham Ferry Vitriol Co (Alexander Crawford, manager)

Rainham Portland Cement Co, Rainham ferry; offices, Coleman Street EC

Rogers Charles, Angel inn

Russell Robert, farmer & market gardener, Brights Farm

Salamon & Co, tar distillers, Ferry Road

Saxby George, lighterman

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

Typke & King, manufacturing chemists, Rainham ferry; offices, 110 Cannon Street

Valentine John, beer retailer

Warner William, beer retailer

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