St Mary Le Strand, Middlesex, England Genealogy

St Mary Le Strand

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

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London St Mary Le Strand
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Middlesex
Hundred	Westminster
Poor Law Union	Strand
Registration District	Strand
Records Begin
Parish registers	1558
Bishop's Transcripts	1800
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not created until 1858
Diocese	London
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (Middlesex Division)
Archive
Middlesex Record Office

Parish History[edit | edit source]

St. Mary-le-Strand with the Duchy of Lancaster is a parish, in the city and liberty of Westminster. The patron is the Crown. It is a parish in the Strand Poor Law Union, the Precinct of the Savoy, and the Liberty of the Rolls.

St. John the Baptist, Savoy is a parish, in the city and liberty of Westminster. The patron is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.^[1]

STRAND, a district in Middlesex; forming part of the metropolis, immediately W of Temple Bar; cut into four sub-districts, and containing St. Anne-Soho, St. Paul-Covent-Garden, St. Mary-le-Strand, and St. Clement-Danes parishes, and St. John-Baptist-Savoy precinct. The places of worship, in 1851, were nine of the Church of England, two of Independents, two of Baptists, one of Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, one of Lutherans, one of Roman Catholics, one of Jews.^[2]

'St Mary-le-Strand, the church of, is situated in the middle of the Strand opposite the south end of Drury Lane, and nearly opposite Somerset House.

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'The original church belonging to this parish is mentioned so early as 1222, when it was called St Mary, and the Innocents of the Strand. It then stood in a spacious church yard, on the south side of the Strand, where the eastern wing of Somerset House is now built; but was taken down, as is mentioned in the preceding article [see St Mary Staining], and that of St John the Baptist, in the Savoy, (see those articles,) by order of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, to make way for his palace, named after him, Somerset House. The parishioners used the chapel of St John aforesaid, till the act of parliament passed for erecting the fifty new churches, when the first stone of this building was laid on the 25th of Feb. 1714, and was finished and consecrated on the 1st Jan. 1723, when instead of its ancient name, it was called St Mary-le-Strand. This church was the first of the fifty new churches, and was erected from the designs of James Gibbs, architect, to the church of St Martin in the Fields.

'The church is a rectory, in the diocese of London, in the county and archdeaconry of London, in the county and archdeaconry of Middlesex, and in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor.'^[3]

Resources[edit | edit source]

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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.

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Church Records[edit | edit source]

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Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

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Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified

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St Mary le Strand 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[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.

1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary

Census Records[edit | edit source]

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.

1634-1900 Rate Books[edit | edit source]

Westminster Rate Books at Findmypast (£).

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.

Poor Law Union[edit | edit source]

The Westminster, Poor Law and Parish Administration collection at Findmypast ($) includes:

1639-1644 - St Mary le Strand, Admissions
1639-1645 - St Mary le Strand, Paupers
1739-1799 - St Mary le Strand, Apprentice records

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

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Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Adapted. Date accessed: 27 December 2013.
↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Adapted. Date accessed: 28 January 2014.
↑ James Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted. Digitised by Google Books.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Adapted. Date accessed: 27 December 2013.

[2] John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Adapted. Date accessed: 28 January 2014.

[elmes-3] James Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted. Digitised by Google Books.

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