FOREST
GATE
Forest Gate is a hamlet lying to the north of Upton and
the Romford road, at the edge of Wanstead Flats, the southern extremity of Epping Forest,
to which this was the entrance (gate). Forest Gate, with Upton and part of East Ham
parish, was made an ecclesiastical district in 1852: population 7127. At Forest Gate is a
station on the Great Eastern Railway (main Colchester line). By it is the Eagle and Child,
tea-gardens and holiday resort. Emmanuel district church is a neat little Gothic building
at the corner of Upton Lane. In Woodgrange Road is the Pawnbrokers' Charitable Institute,
a cheerful group of 5 almshouses. Here is the West Ham Cemetery. Also, in Cemetery Road,
the Jews' Cemetery, in which is the stately mausoleum of the Rothschild family, erected,
1867, from the designs of Mr. Digby Wyatt.
The outlying districts, with their various industries, which have grown
up in West Ham Marshes and towards the Thames, are noticed under
Plaistow.
Those on the other side, including West Ham Abbey, are spoken of under
Stratford.
[Handbook to The Environs of London :
James Thorne 1876]
Church Records:
- Emmanuel, Upton Lane
Baptisms 1852-1976, Marriages 1852-1971, Burials 1853-1966 : ERO
Baptisms 1976- date, Marriages 1971- date : Not deposited
- All Saints, Hampton Rd
Baptisms 1881- date, Marriages 1886- date : Not deposited
- St. Edmund, Katherine Rd
Baptisms 1901-1971, Marriages 1902-1981 : ERO
Baptisms 1971- date, Marriages 1981- date : Not deposited
- St. James, St. James Rd
Baptisms 1870-1966, Marriages 1881-1965 : ERO
- St. Mark, Lorne Rd
Baptisms 1886-1966, Marriages 1894-1933 : ERO
- St. Michael
Baptisms 1957-1971 : ERO
- St. Saviour, Macdonald Rd
Baptisms 1884- date, Marriages1884- date : Not deposited
- St. Anthony of Padua (Roman Catholic), St. Anthony's Rd
Baptisms 1884- date, Marriages 1885- date : Not deposited
- Congregational Chapel, Sebert Rd
Baptisms 1899-1947 : NEW
- Independent Chapel, Romford Rd
Marriages 1912-1984 : NEW
- Primitive Methodist Chapel, Upton Lane
Baptisms 1892-1940, Marriages 1904-1940 : ERO
- United Methodist Chapel, Field Rd
Baptisms 1870-1955, Marriages 1937-1955 : ERO
- United Methodist Chapel, Katherine Rd
Baptisms 1910-1956, Marriages 1920-1955 : ERO
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Woodgrange Rd
Baptisms 1878-1965, Marriages 1887-1941 : ERO
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