Stepney St Matthew, Middlesex Genealogy

England

Middlesex

Middlesex Parishes

Stepney St Matthew

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

Parish History

STEPNEY(St Dunstan) A parish, and the head of a union, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2½ miles E from St. Paul's. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, the Connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon, Calvinistic Methodists, and Roman Catholics, and three meeting-houses for Independents. St. Thomas's district church, in Arbour Square, a neat edifice of Suffolk brick, in the early English style, with two octangular turrets, was erected in 1837 by a grant from the Metropolis Church Building Fund.

Additional information:

St Matthew, Stepney was built as a chapel of ease to the civil parish of Stepney St Dunstan, in whose boundaries it lay. It was built in the year 1872.

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records

Stepney St Matthew parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS PRs = England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (FamilySearch) - free

FS = FamilySearch - free

FMP = Middlesex Baptisms (FindMyPast) - ($)

FMP London = Greater London Marriage and Burial Indexes (FindMyPast) - ($)

ANC 1 = London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (Ancestry) - ($)

ANC 2 = London, England, Church of England Records (Ancestry) - ($)

ANC Marr = London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 (Ancestry) - ($)

BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free

FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free

FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free

Stepney St Matthew Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS PRs	1538-1912		1538-1912		1538-1912
FS	1538-1975		1538-1973		1538-1991
FMP	1543-1876
FMP London			1502-1871		1399-1992
ANC 1	1538-1812		1538-1812		1538-1812
ANC 2	1813-1917		1754-1932		1813-2003
ANC Marr			1597-1921
BOYD			1538-1850
IGI
FS Catalog PRs
FS Catalog BTs

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

• Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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.

Maps and Gazetteers

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

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

Stepney on GENUKI

International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free

FamilySearch Catalog (FS Catalog); formerly called, Family History Library Catalog (FHLC)