Norton Folgate, Middlesex Genealogy

Norton Folgate, Middlesex
Type	Extra-parochial
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Ossulstone (Tower Division)
County	Middlesex
Poor Law Union	Whitechapel
Registration District	Whitechapel
Records begin
	Parish registers: 1720
	Bishop's Transcripts: None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not Applicable
Diocese	Not Applicable
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
Location of Archive
	Middlesex Record Office
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Norton Folgate

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

Parish History

NORTON FOLGATE, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Whitechapel, locally in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex; adjoining the ward of Bishopsgate Without in the city of London, Norton Folgate called also Norton Folley, derives its name from its situation north of Bishopsgate, and the adjunct to its name probably from the Saxon Foldweg.^[1]

Norton Folgate, the street so called is the north continuation of Bishopsgate Street Without, and extends to Shoreditch. It is also the name of a Liberty or manor, which belonged to the cathedral of St Paul as early as the Conquest. This district being extra-parochial, the inhabitants support their own poor, and bury and marry where they please, but they mostly use a chapel, built be Sir George Wheeler, a Prebendary of Durham, for his tenants in Spitalfields. In this liberty there are also a small workhouse, a girl's school, and a free school for boys".^[2]

NORTON-FOLGATE, an extra-parochial liberty in Whitechapel district, Middlesex: within the metropolis, in the line of Ermine Street, at the end of Bishopsgate Street, 1¼ mile NE of St. Paul's. It took the former part of its name from its situation N of Bishopsgate, and the latter part from the Saxon Foldweg, signifying a "highway", in allusion to Ermine Street; and the name was formerly written Northern Foldgate. Acres, 9. Real property, £23,617. Pop. in 1851, 1,771; in 1861, 1,873. Houses, 227. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. An Augustinian priory was founded here, in 1197, by William Brune; and had an income at the dissolution valued at £558. A theatre here was burned in 1839.¹

James Elmes, M.R. I. A., Architect. In “A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs,” (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831).

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Civil Registration

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Church Records

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Church of England

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Norton Folgate 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 and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

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1600 Subsidy

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

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

Norton Folgate on GENUKI

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 11 February 2014.
↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Adapted. Date accessed: 11 February 2014.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 11 February 2014.

[2] John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. Adapted. Date accessed: 11 February 2014.

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