Lower Holloway, Middlesex, England Genealogy

Lower Holloway

Guide to Lower Holloway, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Lower Holloway
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Middlesex
Hundred	Ossulstone (Finsbury Division)
Poor Law Union	Islington
Registration District	Islington
Records Begin
Parish registers	1839
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

HOLLOWAY, a district, in the parish of Islington, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 3 miles N from London. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans and Scottish Presbyterians.^[1]

Holloway Chapel of Ease (Islington) was built and established in the year 1814 and lies within the civil parish of St Mary Islington, Middlesex (which see). By about 1885, this chapel of ease was one of 13 such chapels built in the town. These chapels were:

St John the Evangelist,Pemberton Gardens Upper Holloway - 1828
St Mary Magdalene, Holloway Road- 1839
St James Victoria Road - 1839
St Mark, Holloway - 1854
St Luke Penn Road, West Holloway - 1856
St Barnabas, Holloway - 1866
St George Holloway - 1867
St David, West Holloway - 1869
St Paul, Kingsdown Road, Upper Holloway - 1870
St Anne, Holloway - 1871
St Stephen, Upper Holloway - 1880
All Saints, Upper Holloway - 1885

Non-conformist churches included:

A Wesleyan Methodist chapel in 1866
An Independent chapel was built in 1867
A New Methodist chapel, in 1867
A Roman Catholic chapel was founded in 1869
And several additional dissenting chapels having been built here.

"Lower Holloway. The junction of Hornsey and Holloway roads was known as Ring Cross by 1494, and had early settlement. Lower or Nether Holloway was recorded in 1553. The only mediaeval dwelling known to have existed away from the high road was called Cutlers in 1373 and was probably the site of Copenhagen House, so named by 1695. A house in 'Maid Lane' inhabited by Stephen Rolfe in 1467 may also have been in that part of the parish rather than farther north in Upper Holloway. In 1766-7 Joseph Pocock and Daniel Harrison built Paradise Row, a terrace of 31 houses, near the north end of the Back Road; far from other building at Pentonville and built long before Barnsbury was begun, it remained isolated until c. 1800. Individual villas and small terraces appeared in Holloway Road towards the end of the 18th century: by 1805 Ring Cross was linked with Lower Holloway by building along the north-east side of Holloway Road, and with Upper Street by buildings on both sides, with continual additions and infilling. On the south-west side of Ring Cross, George Pocock built several small streets on land belonging to Lord Northampton including George's Place and Cornwall Place c. 1800 and Independent Place, adjoining the latter, c. 1806. A water-proofing factory was at the bottom of Hornsey Road by 1801; the nonconformist Holloway chapel was built in 1804, with Holloway Place next to it. After land on the north-east side of the high road near Highbury Crescent was enfranchised in 1806, several houses were built, such as no. 72 Holloway Road in 1812, and houses to the south built by the mason and sculptor John Atkinson. By 1811 growth was such that the chapel of ease, completed 1814, was sited there between Holloway and the back roads, and the new parochial schools were built in the Back Road opposite the chapel grounds in 1815."^[2]

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Lower Holloway 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

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Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
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Nonconformist Records

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Census Records

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Probate Records

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Websites

Lower Holloway in Islington on GENUKI

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 12 February 2014.
↑ T F T Baker, C R Elrington eds, A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, Patricia E C Croot, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (England: 1985), p. 29-37. British History Online. (accessed: 06 May 2010)

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 12 February 2014.

[2] T F T Baker, C R Elrington eds, A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, Patricia E C Croot, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (England: 1985), p. 29-37. British History Online. (accessed: 06 May 2010)

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