Islington St Matthew, Middlesex, England Genealogy

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Islington St Matthew

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

Islington St Matthew
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Middlesex
Hundred Ossulstone (Finsbury Division)
Poor Law Union Islington
Registration District Islington
Records Begin
Parish registers 1851
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]

ISLINGTON (St. Matthew), a suburban parish, in the parliamentary borough of Finsbury, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 1½ mile N from London. A church was commenced at Highbury, in August, 1847. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, Baptists, one for a congregation professing the principles of the late Edward Irving [Irvingites] and a spacious Roman Catholic chapel.[1]

St Matthew, Islington was created as a district church in the year 1851. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary Islington.

Resources[edit | edit source]

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Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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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]

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[edit | edit source]

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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Islington St Matthew Online Parish Records
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FamilySearch Parish Registers-Middlesex
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
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FreeREG
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Findmypast-Middlesex ($)
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Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Early) ($)
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Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
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Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

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]

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Websites[edit | edit source]

Islington on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 623-628. Adapted. Date accessed: 6 February 2014.