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1547 Subsidy

• St Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/143); copy: FHL Film 2228700.

1582 Subsidy

• 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Langbourn Ward - Saynt Dyonys Backchurch Parish, courtesy: British History Online

1621 Subsidy

• St Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/490); copy: FHL Film 2228702.
  

1638 Inhabitants List

• Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Dionis Backchurch, courtesy: British History Online

1666 Hearth Tax

• Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Dionis Backchurch, courtesy: British History Online

1692-1932 Land Taxes

• London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692-1932 at Ancestry (£).

1695 Inhabitants Lists

• London Inhabitants Within the Walls 1695, courtesy: British History Online.

This section requires expansion with: any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed.

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.

Before 1858, St Dionis Backchurch fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Deanery of the Arches of London, Croydon, Shoreham. From 1858 to the present, refer to the Principal Probate Registry.

Go to London Probate Records to find the names of the courts having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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.

Records of the Poor

• St Dionis Backchurch Parish Account Books, Clothing Books, Workhouse Inquest Minute Books, Parish Minute Books, Vestry Minutes, Miscellaneous Papers, Churchwarden Voucher/Receipts, Letters Seeking Pauper Relief, Register of Poor Infants, Bastardy Bonds (1600s-1800s), courtesy: London Lives

During the seventeenth century, officials gave some foundlings discovered in St Dionis Backchurch Parish the unique surname Backchurch.^[16]

Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

Parish History

"St Dionis Backchurch is situated near the southwest corner of Lime Street, behind the houses on the north side of Fenchurch Street. It derives its name from being dedicated to St Dionis, Dionysius, or Denis, as it is called in various languages, an Athenian Areopagite, or judge, who was converted to Christianity, and became Bishop of Athens... The addition "Back Church" was given to this church from its situation, and to distinguish it from the church of St. Gabriel, which stood in front of the street.

"The ancient church was destroyed in the great fire in 1666, and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1674, who added the tower and steeple in 1684. The ediface is principally of stone, but part of the walls are of brick, which have been subsequently stuccoed. It is of the Ionic order, of a masculine bold style; within a nave 66 feet long, and 34 high, separated from two capacious aisles, by Ionic columns. The entire width of the nave and aisles is 34 feet within the walls. The oldest authentic mention of this church and parish is in 1288...

"it is one of the 13 peculiar in the city, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The patronage was formerly in the prior and canons of the church; but at the dissolution of the priory, it was conferred by Henry VIII upon the demon chapter of Canterbury, who have remained patrons of the houses [till the 19th century].  It is a rectory, in the province of Canterbury..."^[17]

St Dionis Backchurch belonged to Langbourn Ward.

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Web sites

Wikipedia has more about this subject: St Dionis Backchurch

• London Family History Centre Catalogue
• Sketch of St. Dionis Backchurch Parish Church, courtesy: London Ancestor
• Society of Genealogists Library Catalogue (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Dionis Backchurch')

References

1. ↑ London, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London. Marriages from 1754 to 1812 are not included in this database. Partially indexed.
2. ↑ London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London. Partially indexed.
3. ↑ London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London. Partially indexed.
4. ↑ London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London. Partially indexed.
5. ↑ Batches P001401, C001402, see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for London including Middlesex (A-M), England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 8 June 2011.
6. ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net, accessed 12 June 2011; Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., 1994). FHL Book 942 K22L 1994
7. ↑ 'Boyd's London Burials Index - places and counts,' Find My Past, accessed 8 June 2011. Indexes adult male burials only.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4} Joseph Lemuel Chester, The reiester booke of Saynte De'nis, Backchurch parishe (city of London) for maryages, christenyges, and buryalles, begynnynge in the yeare of Our Lord God 1538 (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1878).
9. ↑ Batch M001401 (inactive 21/02/2012), see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for London including Middlesex (A-M), England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 8 June 2011.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Middlesex and London Coverage, FreeReg, accessed 6 November 2012.
11. ↑ John Hanson, 'City of London Burials,' Find My Past, accessed 8 June 2011.
12. ↑ 'Greater London Burials: Middlesex and City of London Burials: Parishes, Counts and References,' British Origins (£), accessed 4 April 2013.
13. ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes (n.p.: n.p., n.d.). FHL British Book 942 V25pm
14. ↑ Cliff Webb, Some London Burials, Post-1812 (1979). FHL Book 942.1/L1 K29w.
15. ↑ Payne Fisher and G. Blacker Morgan, Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666 (1668; reprint, London: Hasell, Watson, Viney, Ld., 1885). Digitised by Internet Archive.
16. ↑ Nathan W. Murphy, 'London Foundlings in Colonial America: Overseas Leads to Dead Ends: John Abchurch, William Abchurch, Isaac Jewry, and Henry Woolchurch of Virginia and Maryland,' The American Genealogist, Vol. 83, No. 2 (Jul./Oct. 2008):131-140.
17. ↑ James Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted. Digitised by Google Books.

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