Whitechapel St Mary, Middlesex, England Genealogy
Guide to Whitechapel St Mary, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | London |
| Hundred | Ossulstone (Tower Division) |
| Poor Law Union | Whitechapel |
| Registration District | Whitechapel |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1558; Separate registers exist for Whitechapel St Jude (Middlesex) beginning 1848 |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 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 | |
| London Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
WHITECHAPEL (St. Mary), a parish, and the head of a union, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, adjoining the city of London. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and other dissenters. In Little Aylie Street is the German Lutheran church, dedicated to St. George, a neat building with a campanile turret; and in Hooper's Square is a German Calvinistic chapel.[1]
The church building has been demolished.[2]
1831 description:
St Mary Whitechapel [1558], the church of, stands at the eastern end of Whitechapel High Street, at the south side of the beginning of the Whitechapel, or Mile-End Road. This church is of some antiquity, as appears from Hugh de Fulbourn, being its rector in 1329. It was originally a chapel of ease to the parish of Stepney, and is supposed to have received its epithet white, from the colour of its walls. The ancient name of this church was St Mary Matfel, which signifies a woman recently delivered of a son, alluding to the birth of Christ, to whose mother it is dedicated. The old church becoming very ruinous, it was taken down in 1673, and rebuilt as at present [~1830]. This church was anciently a rectory, in the gift of the rector of Stepney, in whose successors the patronage continued till 1711, when it was purchased by the principal and scholars of Brasenose College, Oxford. It is a rectory, in the diocese of London, and exempt from archidiaconal jurisdiction.[3]
Also known as St Mary Matfelon.
View a List of District Churches and Chapels Within the Parish of St Mary Whitechapel.
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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Church of England[edit | edit source]
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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| Whitechapel St Mary Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Middlesex | ||||||
| FamilySearch Parish Registers-Middlesex | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Middlesex ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast (Westminster)-Middlesex ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-Middlesex ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Early) ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Late) ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Marriage Bonds and Allegations-London and Surrey ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
- 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.
1596 Subsidy[edit | edit source]
- S. Mary Matfellon, Cupthall and Wapping, Whitechapel (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/234); transcript by Charles Edward Banks: FS Library Film 1550095 item 20.
1620 Subsidy[edit | edit source]
- Ossulston Hundred, Tower Division: The Tower Hamlets and Whitechapel (The National Archives, Ref: E179/142/254); transcript by Charles Edward Banks: FS Library Film 1550095 item 20.
1623 Subsidy[edit | edit source]
- S. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel (The National Archives, Ref: E179/142/254); transcript by Charles Edward Banks: FS Library Film 1550095 item 20.
1666 Hearth Tax[edit | edit source]
1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid[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.
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: 22 January 2014.
- ↑ St Mary Matfelon's footprint, Whitechapel, Geograph. Adapted. Date accessed: 2 January 2014.
- ↑ James Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs. (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted.