Cann Hall

Cann Hal was a short lived civil parish created by the Local Government Act, 1894 out of the part of Wanstead in the Leyton Urban Sanitary District and absorbed into Waltham Forest on its creation in 1965.

Census

1901-1911 Available on-line at subscription sites and FamilySearch

Cemeteries & Grave yards.

The northern halves of West Ham Cemetery and West Ham Jewish Cemetery lay within this parish.

Church History

This civil parish was covered by the ecclesiastical parish of St John's, Leytonstone. A iron mission church, St Augustine of Hippo was built about 1886, replaced with a brick building in 1889 and a permanent building in 1902. A conventional district establshed in 1937 but the church never gained its own parish. From 28th November 1968, the district lay within the boundary of Holy Trinity, Harrow Green, and baptisms were recorded in the register of that church from 29th December that year.
  • Book in the Local Studies Library: The Church Record in Leyton, by Savell [L88]
  • British History Online: Churches: Leyton

Church Records

Cann Hall was in the Diocese of St Alban's until the Diocese of Chelmsford was created in January 1914, after which it was in the Diocese of Chelmsford. The Diocesan repository for most of the Chelmsford Diocese records is the Essex Record office, however registers from the Waltham Forest Deanery are held at the Waltham Forest Archives. Registers can be seen on-line on the Essex Record Office Parish Registers site. Details of Waltham Forest Archives' holdings are listed here.

The Roman Catholic diocese was previously the Diocese of Westminster but has been in the Diocese of Brentwood, since it was established on 20th July 1917.

Non-conformist churches
The following are held at Waltham Forest Archives:
  • Stratford New Town church originated in 1885 in a building near Crownfield Road
  • Cann Hall Baptist church
  • Dock Labourers mission moved to Upton in 1899

Civil Registration

Cann Hall and Leyton were in the following Registration Districts:
Until September 1935: West Ham
October 1935 until March 1965: Essex South Western
April 1965 onwards: Waltham Forest

Gazetteers & Directories

Pigot's, White's, and Kelly's Essex and London postal district directories all provide a description of a developing area from 1839 up to the second world war. Leyton was included in Stratford directories  1887-8, and Walthamstow directories 1889. From 1891 Kelly's published local street directories for Leyton & Leytonstone.
Guildhall Library:
1887-8 in the Stratford directory
1889-1907 (not 1890 or 1904) in the Walthamstow directory
1909-15, 1922-27, 1929, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 Leyton & Leytonstone directory

Waltham Forest Local Studies Library:
Kelly's Leyton & Leytonstone directory 1886 - 1908
Kelly's Leytonstone Wanstead & Snaresbrook directory 1915 - 1939
Kelly's Essex directory 1868 - 1937 (but this is not a continuous run)
Kelly's Post Office London Directory 1970 - 1990

Kelly's Essex directories may also be found in:
Valence Library: 1862, 1874, 1878, 1894, 1908 (MF), 1926, 1922, 1929 (& Herts), 1937
Romford Library: 1878, 1882, 1886, 1890, 1899, 1904 (& Norfk & Sufk), 1906, 1910, 1912, 1922, 1926, 1929, 1933, 1937
Ilford Central Library: 1855 (& Herts), 1866, 1878, 1882, 1886, 1890, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1922, 1926, 1929, 1933, 1937
Some of these directories are searchable in the Leicester University Historical Durectories Collection.

Health

Cann Hall was included in the area of the Leyton urban sanitary district.
Medical Officer of Health reports for Leyton can be found in Waltham Forest Archives 1892 to 1964.
Waltham Forest Medical Officer of Health reports may also be found in Waltham Forest Archives 1965 to 1972.
These may also be seen on-line in the Wellcome Trust Library from 1895.

Hundreds

Wanstead and Leyton formed part of the Becontree Hundred

Local Government

Leyton Vestry: minutes 1618-1851, 1903-1927; Overseer's & Churchwarden’s accounts
Leyton Parish: minutes, rates and account books 1651-1868
Leyton Local Board of Health: minutes 1873-1894
Leyton Urban District Council
Leyton Borough Council

Manors

Maps


Newspapers

  • Leyton Free Press 1893 - 1896 at WF Local Studies Library
  • Leytonstone Express and Independent 1877 - 1972 at WF Local Studies Library
  • Walthamstow & Leyton Herald 1892 - present at WF Local Studies Library
  • Walthamstow & Leyton Guardian 1876 - 1899 at WF Local Studies Library
  • District Times 1901 - 1914 at WF Local Studies Library
  • Essex Newsman available on British Newspaper Archive 1870-1950
  • Essex Standard available on British Newspaper Archive 1831-1900
  • Essex Herald available on British Newspaper Archive 1828-1899

Population


Poor Houses, Poor law etc.

Wanstead, and later Cann Hall, waere in the West Ham Poor Law Union, formed in 1836. The union workhouse was located in Union Road, Leytonstone, now Langthorne Road. An infirmary was opened at Whipps Cross in 1903.
most records for the poor law union are held by Newham Archives, however some admissions registers, printed reports and accounts are held by Waltham Forest Archives. Further details can be found on www.workhouses.org.uk
WFFHS has a transcription of the Women's admission registers for Central Home Leytonstone 1929-1959.
Baptisms which took place at the workhouse, presumably in the chapel, were entered in the registers of Holy Trinity, Leytonstone as were those for The Home of the Good Shepherd, this being the ecclesiastical parish they were in.
Burials for residents may have taken place at St Mary, Leyton but also at West Ham Cemetery, opened in 1857. The St Mary's burial registers are held at Waltham Forest Archives. They have been transcribed and may be searched. West Ham Cemetery registers are held at the cemetery, and have been digitised by Deceased Online.
Leytonstone Workhouse administrative records including minutes 1903-1927
admissions register 1797-1836, accounts 1803-1827, plans 1830, child paupers in the care of the parish 1812-1834
Select vestry for care and management of poor relief minutes 1819-1823, reports 1820-1823.

Registers of Electors

Available to search in Waltham Forest Local Studies Library:
  • Cann Hall: 1893 - 1896 (in Leyton for later years)
  • Leyton: 1893 - 1915, 1918 - 1939, 1945 - 1965
  • Waltham Forest: 1965 onwards

Services

  • Electricity: Leyton's electricity supply started in 1896 with a power station at the western end of Cathall Road. Although it started generating before Walthamstow, it eventually suplimented its supply with power from the Walthamstow station.
  • Gas: In 1912, two gascompanies supplied Leyton, the Gas Light & Coke Co., and the Lea Bridge District Gas Co..
  • Water: In 1912, water was supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board.

Transport

Railway stations stations opened on the Eastern Counties Railway at Leyton and Leytonstone (now Underground) in 1856, from 1862 part of the Great Eastern Railway. These stations became part of the Central Line in 1947.
Leytonstone and LeytonstoneWanstead Park stations on the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway in 1894. These are now part of the Barking to Gospel Oak line.

Societies