Tottenham All Hallows, Middlesex, England Genealogy

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Tottenham All Hallows

Guide to Tottenham All Hallows, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Middlesex
Hundred Edmonton
Poor Law Union Edmonton
Registration District Edmonton
Records Begin
Parish registers 1558
Bishop's Transcripts 1629-30; 1639; 1800
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[edit | edit source]

TOTTENHAM, a parish, which is also a sub-district, in Edmonton district, Middlesex; averagely 5½ miles N by E of St. Paul's, London. There are eleven chapels for dissenters and 1 for Roman Catholics.[1]

All Hallows is an Anglican church in Tottenham, North London. It is one of the oldest buildings in the London Borough of Haringey, being built as All Saints Church in the 12th century. It was re-dedicated as All Hallows in the 15th century, standing adjacent to Bruce Castle and Tottenham Cemetery.[2]

A smaller chapel subdividing All Hallows boundaries was consecrated at Wood Green in October 1844 (see additional churches added within these boundaries, below); it is in the early English style. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans and Roman Catholics.[3]

The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the County of Middlesex.[4]

Also see The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham Highcross, Middlesex, Google Books.

The name by which it is known and dedicated today is: All Hallows.

Here's a list of the other chapels lying within the parish boundary of Tottenham All Hallows:

  • Holy Trinity, High Cross - 1828
  • St Paul, Park Lane - 1859
  • St Ann, Stamford Hill - 1861
  • St Michael, Wood Green - 1865
  • St Johns Mission Church, Wood Green - 1866
  • St Mary the Virgin, Lansdowne Rd - 1882
  • St Peter, Page Green - 1883
  • St Mark, Noel Park, Wood Green - 1885
  • St John the Divine, Vartry Road, Stamford Hill - 1886
  • Christ Church, West Green - 1889
  • St Bartholomew Stamford Hill - 1895
  • St Philip the Apostle - 1898
  • St Cuthbert, Wood Green - 1902
  • St Luke, Tottenham - 1905
  • St Gabriel, Bounds Green St John, Brook Road - 1906
  • St Patrick's Mission - 1909
  • St Andrew's Mission - 1910
  • St Benet Fink, Walpole Rd - 1912

TOTTENHAM [All Hallows], a parish, [by 1557] in the union and hundred of Edmonton, County of Middlesex, 4 miles north and east of London. A district church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in the later English style, with turrets at each angle, and pinnacles over the aisles, was erected in 1829 on Tottenham Green... Today it lies within the London Borough of Haringey.

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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.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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  • Dates in the following table are approximate

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Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

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Census and Inhabitants Lists[edit | edit source]

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1666 Hearth Tax[edit | edit source]

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.

Manorial Records[edit | edit source]

Records survive for six manors in Tottenham Parish: Balliol's Manor (1319-1442), Bruce's Manor (1319-1418), Hasting's Manor (1369-1900), Mocking's Manor (1421-1443), Tottenham Manor (1308-1908), and Tottenham Rectory Manor (1525-1869). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

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Websites[edit | edit source]

Tottenham on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Tottenham All Saints
  2. Tottenham All Saints
  3. Lewis, Samuel ed. 'Chinley - Chiswick,' in A Topographical Dictionary of England 380-386. (1848). Adapted. Date accessed 25 January 2014.
  4. Henry Lord Colerane The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the County of Middlesex, (London, 1790). Adapted. Date accessed 25 January 2014.