Bethnal Green St Bartholomew, Middlesex, England Genealogy

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Bethnal Green St Bartholomew

Guide to Bethnal Green St Bartholomew, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Bethnal Green St Bartholomew
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Middlesex
Hundred Ossulstone (Tower Division)
Poor Law Union Bethnal Green
Registration District Bethnal Green
Records Begin
Parish registers 1844
Bishop's Transcripts None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Not created until 1858
Diocese London
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
Archive
Middlesex Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]

BETHNAL-GREEN (St. Matthew), is a parish, and a union of itself, in the borough of the Tower Hamlets, Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex. The first stone of St. Bartholomew, in Cambridge-road, was laid 27th Jan. 1842.[1]

The church of St. Bartholomew, in Cambridge-road, was consecrated and in operation by June, 1844. It lay within the civil parish boundary of St Matthew Bethnal Green.[2]

See St Matthew Bethnal Green.

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use [ England Jurisdictions 1851]. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Middlesex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

Bethnal Green on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Adapted. Date accessed: 31 December 2013.
  2. 1. Samuel Lewis, ed. " Besford - Beverley," In A Topographical Dictionary of England 223-228. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848), Online here,