Finsbury St Luke Old St, Middlesex, England Genealogy

Finsbury St Luke Old St

Guide to Finsbury St Luke Old St, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Here is a Comprehensive List of Chapels and District Churches Lying within Finsbury St Luke Old Street as of 1900.

Finsbury St Luke Old St
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Middlesex
Hundred	Ossulstone (Finsbury Division)
Poor Law Union	St Luke
Registration District	St Luke
Records Begin
Parish registers	1733
Bishop's Transcripts	1813 and 1816
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not created until 1858
Diocese	London
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral
Archive
Middlesex Record Office

Parish History

'Finsbury St Luke Old Street, the [parish] of (1733), is situated on the north side and near the centre of Old Street, and owes its rise to the great increase of buildings in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate. In consequence of which, the commissioners for erecting the fity new churches in the reign of Queen Anne, purchased the piece of ground upon which it stands, and erected one of those churches. The inhabitants afterwards applied to parliament and had the Middlesex liberty of St Giles, Cripplegate assigned to them for their parish.

'[St Luke's] was finished in 1732, and was consecrated in the following year, on St Luke's day, when the name of that apostle was given as its patron [saint]. The church is very substantially built of Portland Stone and has an obelisk by way of a spire.

'The advowson of this church is a rectory in the county and archdeaconry of Middlesex, in the diocese of London, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's [Cathedral]... This parish has also recently erected a new church or chapel of ease, in King's Square [called St Barnabas, in 1826], Goswell Street Road, from the designs of Philip Hardwick, Esq., which is a curacy in the patronage of the rector, and the commissioners for new churches are building another church in the parish which is neither finished nor instituted [called St Ames].'^[1]

Finsbury St Luke has an excellent 19th century historical perspective written by the famed topographer, Samuel A. Lewis, here.^[2]

Resources

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Cemeteries

Inscriptions, St. Lukes, London(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Monumental Inscriptions, Bunhill Fields, Finsbury, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury, Re St. Luke's Burial Ground(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
1713-1854 Burials at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Finsbury(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
1823-1854 Index to Books of Interment, Vols. 11-18, 1823-1854(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
1840-1854 Bunhill Field Register of Tombstones, 1841-1854(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
1889-1900 Bunhill Memorials(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Bunhill Fields(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
History of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Inscriptions Upon the Tombs, Grave-Stone, &c. in the Dissenters Burial-Place Near Bunhill-Fields(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Register of Burials at City Road Chapel Burial Ground from the Commencement(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Civil Registration

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

See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England

Due to the increasing access of online records:

Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified

Dates in the following table are approximate

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Finsbury St Luke Old Street Online Parish Records
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Middlesex	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
FamilySearch Parish Registers-Middlesex	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Middlesex ($)	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1400s-1900s
Findmypast (Westminster)-Middlesex ($)	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1400s-1900s
Findmypast Banns-Middlesex ($)	-	-	-	1700s-1800s	-	-
Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Early) ($)	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-
Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Late) ($)	1800s-1900s	-	1700s-1900s	-	1800s-2000s	-
Ancestry Marriage Bonds and Allegations-London and Surrey ($)	-	-	1600s-1900s	-	-	-
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1600s-1800s

Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Nonconformist Records

"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.

1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages at Findmypast — index & images ($); coverage may vary

Records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

See Ward Membership Records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for general research information:

1850-1856: Finsbury Branch, London Conference (FS Library film 86998), which met at Providence Baptist Church, Cumberland Street (now Hearn Street) in Curtain Road, Shoreditch
1853: Goswell Road Branch, London Conference (FS Library film 86998), which met at 23 Ratcliffe Terrace in Goswell Road

Census Records

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

1600 Lay Subsidy

1600 Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: ffynnesberrye and Wentoxebarne lib{er}tye, Grubstreete, Grubstreete w{i}thin ffynnesburue and Wenloxebarne lib{er}tie adhuc, Whitecrostreete, Goldingelane, Oldestreete (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

Probate Records

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

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Websites

Finsbury on GENUKI

References

↑ James Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted. Digitised by Google Books.
↑ Samuel Lewis, ed. [[1]] 235-238. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848), (accessed: 21 April 2010)

[elmes-1] James Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted. Digitised by Google Books.

[2] Samuel Lewis, ed. [[1]] 235-238. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848), (accessed: 21 April 2010)

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