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| [[England Genealogy|England]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]][[Middlesex]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Bromley by Bow | | #REDIRECT [[Bromley St Leonard, Middlesex, England Genealogy]] |
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| A guide to genealogy in Bromley by Bow, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.
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| '''Bromley by Bow''' is a parish in the East End of London, England.
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| {{Tip|The page refers to '''Bromley''', or '''Bromley by Bow''', in Middlesex, London. For Bromley in Kent see [[Bromley, Kent]]}} <br>
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| == Parish History ==
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| In 1848: BROMLEY ST. LEONARD'S (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Poplar, Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, ½ a mile (S.) from Bow, and 3½ miles (E.) from Cornhill, London; containing 6154 inhabitants. The name appears to have been derived from Brom, broom, and Ley, a field, indicating that a great quantity of broom anciently grew in the vicinity. The village is lighted with gas, and supplied with water by the works of the East London Water Company: there is a distillery on a large scale, near the western entrance into it. A communication with the Regent's canal has been formed by a cut from the river Lea, made by Sir Charles Duckett. Two headboroughs and a constable are annually appointed at the manorial court; and the parochial affairs are under the superintendence of a select vestry. The living is a donative; net income, £190; patron, John Walter, Esq.; impropriators, the Mann family. The church, a small plain structure comprising only a nave and chancel, is surrounded by a high wall, and exhibits some remains of Norman architecture, containing also, in the southern wall of the chancel, some stone seats. It is part of a larger edifice, the conventual church of a Benedictine nunnery founded soon after the Conquest, by William, Bishop of London, and dedicated to St. Leonard: the society consisted of a prioress and nine nuns, whose revenue, in the 26th of Henry VIII., was rated at £121. 16.
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| At New Town is a second church, the living of which is a perpetual curacy; net income, £100; patron, the Incumbent of Bromley. The Bow Wesleyan meeting-house stands in the parish. National and infants' schools are supported by subscription, and a Sunday school is endowed with £1400 three per cents., from the interest of which the minister is paid £20 per annum, to catechise the children once a month, and for an annual examination. Seventeen children of the parish are entitled to receive education at Sir John Jolles's school at Stratford: Sir John also founded eight almshouses for the poor at Stratford and Bromley, opposite to which are almshouses established for the benefit of decayed sail-makers, by John Edmonson; at the upper extremity, between the two rows of almshouses, is a neat chapel.<ref>From: 'Bromeswell - Bromsgrove', ''[[A Topographical Dictionary of England]]'' (1848), pp. 395-400. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50834%7C British History].)</ref>
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| == Resources ==
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| ==== Civil Registration ====
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| Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD].
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| ==== Church records ====
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| To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use [http://maps.familysearch.org/ England Jurisdictions 1851]. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the[https://familysearch.org/catalog-search Family History Library] (FHL) in Salt Lake City.
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| ==== Non-Conformist Churches ====
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| ==== Census records ====
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| {{Expand section|any unique information, such as ''the census for X year was destroyed''}}
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| ==== Probate records ====
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| Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [[Middlesex Probate Records|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.
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| ==== Poor Law Unions ====
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| Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.
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| == Maps and Gazetteers ==
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| Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.<br>
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| *[http://maps.familysearch.org/ England Jurisdictions 1851]
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| *[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]
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| == Websites ==
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| == References ==
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| <references />
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| [[Category:Middlesex Parishes]]
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