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1541 Subsidy

• 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Aldgate Ward - The Parisshe of Saint Katheryn Christchurche, courtesy: British History Online

1582 Subsidy

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• 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Aldgate Ward - St Katherine Chrechurch Parishe, courtesy: British History Online

1589 Subsidy

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1625 Subsidy

• St Katherine Creechurch, Aldgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/549); copy: FHL Film 2228703.
  

1628 Subsidy

• St Katherine Creechurch, Aldgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/565 Part 1 of 3); copy: FHL Film 2228702.
  

1645 Subsidy

• St Katherine Creechurch, Aldgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/595); copy: FHL Film 2228704.
  

1666 Hearth Tax

• Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Katherine Creechurch, 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.

1749-1891 List of Inhabitants

• Microfilm copy: FHL British Film 569955 Item 4.
  

1831 Census

The 1831 Census exists.^[13]

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

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.

Probate records

Will indexes for probate courts covering St Katherine Cree Parish are available online.

Before 1858, St Katherine Cree fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London. 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.

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

Cemetery

St Katherine Cree churchyard

A cemetery survey (1910), available online, covers monumental inscriptions in the St Catherine Cree churchyard.^[15]

Records of the Poor

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

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

Parish History

St Katherine Cree

Timeline

• 1108 - first mentioned
• 1631 - current church building built
• 1962 - extensive church renovation

1831 description

"St Katherine or Catherine Cree, the church of, is situated at the southeast angle of Cree Church Lane, in Leadenhall Street.  It is dedicated to the same... saint and martyr as the preceding [St Katherine Coleman Parish], and is distinguished from other churches of the same name by the addition of Cree, the ancient English method of spelling Christ, as pronounced by the French, having been built on the site of a dissolved priory, whose church was called that of our Saviour Christ. They therefore dedicated it to St. Catherine, and added the original name of the priory by way of distinction. Henry VIII, in his grant of the priory to Sir Thomas afterwards Lord Audley, gave him also the patronage of the church. Upon the death of this noble man he bequeathed it to the master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and their successors, when he enjoined to serve the cure for ever. That corporation leased out the impropriation to the parish for 99 years; but a dispute arising between the college and the parish at the expiration of the set lease in 1725, about a renewal, a lease was granted to Jerome Knapp, Esq., a citizen and haberdasher of London, and an agreement, which was confirmed by act of Parliament in 1727, was entered into concerning a commutation in loop of tithes. The present structure was erected in 1630, it is built of stone in a mixed and impure style. The length of the body is 90 feet, the breadth 51, and height 37. Maitland...[said] that the church is a curacy, and that the parishioners have the privilege of electing their own minister, who must be licensed by the Bishop of London. But the Clerical Guide, which must be of authority, says that it is a vicarage and still in the gift of the master and Fellows of Magdalen College, Cambridge..."^[17]

Additional jurisdictions

St Katherine Cree belonged to Aldgate Ward. The parish is also known as St Katherine Creechurch, St Catherine Cree, and St Catherine Creechurch.

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Web sites

Wikipedia has more about this subject: St Katharine Cree

• St Olave's and St Katharine Cree (official website). Photographs, history, visitor directions.
• London Family History Centre Catalogue
• Sketch of St Catherine Cree Parish Church, courtesy London Ancestor
• Society of Genealogists Library Catalogue (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Katherine Creechurch')

References

1. ↑ The earliest parish register entries are dated 1663. Bishops's transcripts for 1639 and 1640 survive, predating parish registers.
2. ↑ London, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Katherine Cree in the City of London. Marriages from 1754 to 1812 are not included in this database. Partially indexed.
3. ↑ London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Katherine Creechurch in the City of London. Partially indexed.
4. ↑ London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Katherine Creechurch in the City of London. Partially indexed.
5. ↑ London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1853, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Described as St Katherine Creechurch in the City of London. Partially indexed.
6. ↑ 'About Middlesex Baptisms Index 1538-1751,' British Origins, accessed 16 March 2012.
7. ↑ 'Webb's London Marriages - Marriages, periods and parishes/churches,' British Origins, accessed 4 July 2011.
8. ↑ John Hanson, 'City of London Burials,' Find My Past, accessed 8 June 2011.
9. ↑ Batches C022711-C022712, see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for London including Middlesex (A-M), England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 8 June 2011. Indexes parish register transcripts.
10. ↑ '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
11. ↑ Batches M022711-M022712, see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for London including Middlesex (A-M), England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 8 June 2011. Indexes parish register transcripts.
12. ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes (n.p.: n.p., n.d.). FHL British Book 942 V25pm
13. ↑ Colin R. Chapman, Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings in the British Isles, 5th ed. (Dursley, U.K.: Lochin Publising, 2002), 73.
14. ↑ 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.
15. ↑ Percy C. Rushden, The Churchyard Inscriptions of the City of London (London: Phillimore and Co., Ltd., 1910). 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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