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Guide to '''Stepney St Matthew, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. | Guide to '''Stepney St Matthew, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. | ||
== Parish History == | |||
STEPNEY(St Dunstan) A '''parish''', and the head of a union, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2½ miles | STEPNEY(St Dunstan) A '''parish''', and the head of a union, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2½ miles E from St. Paul's. There are places of worship for '''Baptists''', the '''Society of Friends''', the '''Connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon''', '''Calvinistic Methodists''', and '''Roman Catholics''', and three meeting-houses for '''Independents'''. '''St. Thomas's district church''', in Arbour Square, a neat edifice of Suffolk brick, in the early English style, with two octangular turrets, was erected in 1837 by a grant from the Metropolis Church Building Fund.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51302#s13 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''], (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 26 January 2014.</ref> | ||
'''Additional information:''' | '''Additional information:''' | ||
'''St Matthew, Stepney''' was built as a chapel of ease to the civil parish of Stepney St Dunstan, in whose boundaries it lay. It was built in the year 1872. | '''St Matthew, Stepney''' was built as a '''chapel of ease''' to the '''civil parish''' of Stepney St Dunstan, in whose boundaries it lay. It was built in the year 1872. | ||
=== Resources === | === Resources === |
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