Hackney St John, Middlesex Genealogy

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Hackney St John

Guide to Hackney Wick, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Hackney St John, Middlesex
St Johns Hackney
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Ossulstone (Tower Division)
County	Middlesex
Poor Law Union	Hackney
Registration District	Hackney
Records begin
Parish registers: 1545
Bishop's Transcripts: 1800
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not created until 1858
Diocese	London
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
Location of Archive
Middlesex Record Office

Parish History

Hackney, parliamentary borough and parish (railway stations, Hackney and Hackney Downs Junction), Middlesex, in NE of London, including Hackney parish and Stoke Newington parish), Bethnal Green and Shoreditch.

Hackney St John, a parish, forming a union with Stoke Newington, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, County of Middlesex, 2 miles northeast of London. In the 19th century, this parish was greatly divided into numerous chapelries and chapel districts by the 19th century. According to Lewis, here are some of them:

• South Hackney Well Street (1810)
  
• West Hackney Kingsland Road (1823 and with a cemetery)
  
• Hackney St John - 1558 ( the ancient or mother parish)
  
• Stamford Hill
  
• Homerton Episcopal chapel
  
• St Barnabas Homerton - 1846
  
• Dalston
  
• Clapton
  
• St Peter Hackney (see under Beauvoir Town)
  
• St Thomas Clapton Common - 1827
  

Although the above churches are mentioned in the 19th century perspective by Samuel A. Lewis (see footnote), these were but a fraction of all the Church of England chapels (there were nearly 40 of them) located in the civil parish boundary. Here is a List of all the above as well those numerous unlisted chapels all of which have thus far been identified as being attached to St John's Hackney Parish--see this following link--"A Comprehensive List of Hackney District Churches in Pre-1900".

There were also built, chapels for worship for Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists and Unitarians.

The "Victoria County History" of Hackney (1995) is available online. It includes chapters on manors, economic history, local government, churches, Roman Catholicism, Protestant nonconformity, other Christian churches, Judaism, Islam, education, and charities for the poor.

Resources

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Cemeteries

• 1685-1858 Monumental Inscriptions From the Old Churchyard, St. John's Church, Hackney, 1685-1858(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• 1853-1876 Burials, 1853-1876(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Cemetery Inscriptions in St. John's Churchyard, Hackney(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Record of Inscriptions of Graves in Churchyard at St. John at Hackney(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Monumental Inscriptions of St. John's and St. Augustine's Cemeteries(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Civil Registration

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

• See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
  
  

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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Hackney St John 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

"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 and images (coverage may vary)

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.

1600 Subsidy

• 1600 Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Hackeney (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1666 Hearth Tax

• Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Hackney at British History Online - free.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

• St John Hackney at British History Online - free.

Genealogy

A Second Cousin Twice Removed. A family tree of John Collett Hickey married Mary Ann Hobbins, from 1806-1967, and descendants of Ward, Robinson, Yetton, Henry, Parmetner, Hunter, Buckledee, Kidd, Hackney, listed in the following areas, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Walthamstow, Leytonstone, Hackney, Wanstead and Felixstowe. Article in Roots and Branches vol.10.no.3, page 28 FS Library Ref. 942.64/F5 D25r

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.

Manorial Records

A few records survive for Shacklewell Manor (1540-1541) in Hackney Parish. The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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

• Hackney on GENUKI
• Sketch of Hackney Parish Church, courtesy: London Ancestors

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England Databases (FamilySearch) - free

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

Digital images of Bishop's Transcripts are available in the FamilySearch Catalog

FreeREG - free

Parish Registers in Birth, Marriage & Death (Findmypast) - ($)

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Parish Registers in Birth, Marriage & Death (Findmypast) - ($)

Westminster Banns (Findmypast) - ($)

London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 - ($)

London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 - ($)

Various indexes of Birth/Christening, Marriage, and Death/Burial records are available on Ancestry.

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (Findmypast) - free

National Burial Index For England & Wales (Findmypast) - free

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