Shoreditch St Leonard, Middlesex, England Genealogy

Shoreditch St Leonard

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

Here's a List of District Churches and Chapels Within St Leonard's Shoreditch Parish.

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London St Leonard Shoreditch
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Middlesex
Hundred	Ossulstone (Tower Division)
Poor Law Union	Shoreditch
Registration District	Shoreditch
Records Begin
Parish registers	1558
Bishop's Transcripts	1807
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not created until 1858
Diocese	London
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of London
Archive
Middlesex Record Office

Parish History

SHOREDITCH (St. Leonard), a parish, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex; forming a north-eastern portion of the metropolis with Haggerston and Hoxton. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents and Wesleyan and other Methodists.^[1]

This parish was subdivided into numerous chapelries and district churches by 1900.

Here is a chronological list of District Churches and Chapels in St Leonard Shoreditch:

Merchant Taylor’s School Mission -
Aske’s Hospital Chapel, Hackney - 1696- Baptisms 1731-1744 P019041 ; Marriages 1696-1753 M019041
Geffrye’s Almshouses Chapel, Kingsland Road - 1794
St John the Baptist, Hoxton - 1826
St Mary Haggerston Road, Haggerston - 1829
Christ Church, Hoxton - 1839
St James, Curtain Road - 1839
St Philip Dalston - 1844
Holy Trinity, Bletchley Street, Hoxton - 1848
St Mark Old Street Road - 1848
All Saints Haggerston - 1855
St Paul Haggerston - 1858
St Paul Haggerston - 1861
St Michael, Mark Street, Shoreditch - 1862
St Saviour Hoxton - 1862
St Augustine Haggerston - 1863 (part from Bethnal Green parishes)
St Chad Haggerston - 1863
St Columba Haggerston - 1863
St Andrew Hoxton - 1863
St Stephen, Goldsmith’s Row, Haggerston - 1864
St Anne Hoxton - 1865
Holy Trinity Shoreditch - 1866
St Mary Hoxton - 1866
St Peter Hoxton Square - 1869
St Mark St Mark’s Rise, Dalston - 1870
St Agatha Haggerston - 1871
St Mark Dalston with St. Bartholomew - 1871
Holy Trinity, Beechwood Road, Dalston - 1879
St Bartholomew Dalston – 1879
St Paul, Broke Road, Haggerston - 1893

Be sure to see the above link to a "List of District Churches and Chapels Within St Leonard's Shoreditch Parish" for a more complete picture as to Shoreditch's ecclesiastical makeup.

Sir Henry Ellis's 1798 history of Shoreditch Parish has been digitized.^[2]

Resources

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Cemeteries

1742-1857 Monumental Inscriptions and Burials, 1742-1857(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Churchyard Inscriptions(*) 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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Shoreditch St Leonard 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

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

1666 Hearth Tax

Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: St Leonard Shoreditch at British History Online

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

St Leonard Shoreditch at British History Online

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

A 1922 survey of monuments within the church and in the churchyard is available online.^[3]

Poor Law Union

Baptisms of St Leonard Workhouse from 1835 to 1861 are indexed at FamilySearch in Batch P021491 ^[4]

Baptisms of Shoreditch Workhouse from 1836 to 1873 are indexed at FamilySearch in Batch P015591 ^[4]

Maps and Gazetteers

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

Websites

Shoreditch on GENUKI

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 04 February 2014.
↑ Ellis, Henry. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch, and Liberty of Norton Folgate, in the Suburbs of London, 1798. Adapted. Date accessed: 04 February 2014.
↑ 'The Church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch', Survey of London: volume 8: Shoreditch (1922), pp. 91-125. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=98229 Date accessed: 15 March 2012.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Hugh Wallis, "IGI Batch Numbers for London including Middlesex (N-Z), England," IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 17 March 2012.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 04 February 2014.

[2] Ellis, Henry. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch, and Liberty of Norton Folgate, in the Suburbs of London, 1798. Adapted. Date accessed: 04 February 2014.

[3] 'The Church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch', Survey of London: volume 8: Shoreditch (1922), pp. 91-125. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=98229 Date accessed: 15 March 2012.

[hugh-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Hugh Wallis, "IGI Batch Numbers for London including Middlesex (N-Z), England," IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 17 March 2012.

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