Whitechapel St Mary, Middlesex, England Genealogy

Whitechapel St Mary

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

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.

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Civil Registration

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Church Records

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Church of England

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Whitechapel St Mary 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

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

Census Records

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1596 Subsidy

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

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

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

Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Whitechapel at British History Online

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

St Mary Whitechapel at British History Online

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.

Maps and Gazetteers

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Websites

Whitechapel on GENUKI
Sketch of Whitechapel St Mary Parish Church, courtesy: London Ancestor

References

↑ 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.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 22 January 2014.

[2] St Mary Matfelon's footprint, Whitechapel, Geograph. Adapted. Date accessed: 2 January 2014.

[3] James Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs. (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted.

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