Hampstead St John, Middlesex, England Genealogy

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Hampstead St John

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

Hampstead St John
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Middlesex
Hundred	Ossulstone (Holborn Division)
Poor Law Union	Hampstead
Registration District	Hampstead
Records Begin
Parish registers	1560
Bishop's Transcripts	1639; 1800
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

HAMPSTEAD (St. John), a parish, in the union of Edmonton, Holborn division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 4 miles north and west of London. Originally in ancient times, it was a hamlet in the parish of Hendon, it became detached from it in 1598.

Hampstead chapel, in Well Walk, originally the pump-room of the Wells Tavern; and St. John's chapel, Downshire Hill...erected in 1823, are proprietary episcopal chapels. There are chapels of worship for Baptists, Wesleyans, Unitarians and Roman Catholics.'

Hampstead was granted to the Benedictine monks of Westminster Abbey by charter in 986 but, though it is unlikely they did not place a church there soon afterwards, the first concrete record of one comes from 1312 (when it was recorded that John de Neuport was its priest) and 1333 (through a mention of a Chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary). On the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Abbey was replaced by the Bishop of Westminster.

The civil and ancient parish of St John Hampstead was established by the year 1560.

The Victoria County History of Hampstead (1989) is available at Britian History Online. It includes chapters on manors, estates, economic history, local government, churches, Roman Catholicism, Protestant nonconformity, Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism, other faiths, education, and charities for the poor.

Here is a list of Churches and Chapels of St John Hampstead in Pre-1900.

Resources

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Cemeteries

• St. John Hampstead Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• St. John Hampstead Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Monumental Inscriptions of Hampstead Cemetery(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Pre-1888 Index to Mr. Snell's M.I. Of Hampstead Parish Church & Churchyards to 1888(*) 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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Hampstead St John 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

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: Hampstede (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1666 Hearth Tax

• Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Hampstead at British History Online - 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.

Cemetery

• Findagrave is an international database of cemetery interments. In some cases there are photographs and comments regarding the deceased's family. It is a collaborative project, meaning any volunteer may add names and photos. As of 2016 it contained over 150 million burial records and 75 million photos.

Maps and Gazetteers

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

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

• Hampstead on GENUKI
• Records of the Manor, Parish, and Borough of Hampstead, in the County of London, to December 31st, 1889. London: Whittaker and Co., 1890. Digital version at Google Books.

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England Databases (FamilySearch) - free

England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (FamilySearch) - free

Digital images of Bishop's Transcripts are available in the FamilySearch Catalog

FreeREG - free

Parish Registers in Birth, Marriage & Death (Findmypast) - ($)

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Parish Registers in Birth, Marriage & Death (Findmypast) - ($)

Westminster Banns (Findmypast) - ($)

London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 - ($)

London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 - ($)

Various indexes of Birth/Christening, Marriage, and Death/Burial records are available on Ancestry.

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (Findmypast) - free

National Burial Index For England & Wales (Findmypast) - free

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