Advice needed for marriage in West Ham - Wilson / Kent

[Nova67]

This is the link for the certificate ordering service:
http://www.gro.gov.uk/GRO/content/certificates/default.asp

[Ministeph]

Thanks to all for your kind help. I hadn't figured out at first that West Ham wasn't considered as part of London and so wouldn't be with the other certificates I had found previously (I'm french and I'm kind of discovering all this).
Thank you all very much, I will order the certificate !

[Nova67]

Greater London has absorbed some of the places that used to be considered part of Essex.
If you go into your search result for Arthur Earnest Wilson, searching via:
 
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Marriages Jun 1909   

WILSON  Arthur Earnest    W. Ham  4a 53

If you click on the registration district W. Ham, this will give you more information about the district:

The district W. Ham is an alternative name for West Ham and it spans the boundaries of the counties of Essex and Greater London; information about it can be found here


Then if you click on the here it will take you to Genuki, which will give you more info about the changing boundaries:
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/west%20ham.html

Alternatively you can just search for any district via Genuki, also gives you many suggestions for ways of searching for genealogical material in a particular area:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/ or http://www.genuki.org.uk/contents/

Hope this helps with researching your English ancestors.

For parish information:
http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl

Not all districts covered there though, but you can try

[Nova67]

More info specifically about changing London:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LND/

"London City is a County in itself and is divided into Wards whose boundaries do not coincide with those of the parishes in the City. In 1889 the Administrative County of London was formed from the City of London, and parts of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey and was divided into boroughs. In 1963 this County was replaced by Greater London which also took in the rest of Middlesex and parts of Essex and Herts as well as some county boroughs. New London boroughs were then formed." [T.V.H. FitzHugh, The Dictionary of Genealogy, 1994.]

[Nova67]

If you want to know which areas are covered by the London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, see boroughs and then parishes on right hand side:

http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1623

Scan further down the left-hand side of the page for this: About London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921

[nannyj]

They seemed to have lived in Bow and their children born in poplar.

[Jolee]

In 1909 East Ham was a sub district of West Ham your couple were married in St Bartholomew's Church on the 06/05/1909
Bridegroom Albert Ernest Wilson 29 bachelor occupation- hard to read but could be platelayer father William James Wilson (dec) market gardener.
Bride Mary Ann Matilda Kent 36 spinster no occupation father John Harry Kent (dec) fisherman
Witness ?Fanny Elizabeth Ferguson Charles Edward Wilson