St Marylebone St Matthew, Middlesex, England Genealogy


St Marylebone St Matthew

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

Parish History

ST MARY-LE-BONE, a parish, in the Holborn division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex [built in 1668]. It comprises one of the largest populations of any parish in the whole country (see the link below to view a list of all the "District Churches and Chapels in Pre-1900 St Marylebone"). It contained Cavendish, Manchester, and Portman Squares; Portland Place, Regent's Park, bounded by the Hampstead and Highgate hills; Stratford Place; Cumberland Place; Lisson Grove and St. John's Wood, on the west; Chapel of St. Katherine's Hospital located at Regent's Park, removed from its original site near The Tower, London. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, Calvinistic Methodists, and Seceders from the Scottish Church; a chapel belonging to the Greek Church; a French, and a Spanish, Roman Catholic chapel; and a Roman Catholic chapel in St. John's Wood.[1]

St Matthew, St Marylebone was a district church or a church built to ease the heavy demands of the on going population influx within the very populous civil parish of St Marylebone. This church was built in the year 1853.

Here's a list of District Churches and Chapels in Pre-1900 St Marylebone.

Resources

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Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

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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St Marylebone St Matthew Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
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FamilySearch Collections-Middlesex
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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 ($)
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Findmypast (Westminster)-Middlesex ($)
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Findmypast Banns-Middlesex ($)
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Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Early) ($)
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Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Late) ($)
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Ancestry Marriage Bonds and Allegations-London and Surrey ($)
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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

"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

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.


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.

Poor Law Union

Maps and Gazetteers

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

Websites

St Marylebone on GENUKI

References

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848. Adapted. Date accessed: 29 January 2014.