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England London Boroughs  Hackney

Guide to London Borough of Hackney ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



History
As with all the other London Boroughs, Hackney Borough was organized by the central UK Government in 1965. It includes the former areas of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington. Family History Researchers should be aware that they should look for these separate entities in the County of Middlesex,a county no longer in existence, rather than Hackney Borough, although a lot of useful information is available from the latter source.

In Roman times Ermine Street passed to the west of what is now Hackney Central. The land was covered with open oak and hazel woodlands, with marshland around the rivers and streams that crossed the area. Hackney lay in the Catevallauni tribal territory.

The name Hackney derives from a 5th or 6th century Saxon settlement known as Haca's ey – or raised ground in marshland. The settlement was near Hackney Brook, and was probably on the higher ground around the later St Augustine's Tower. Hackney is not mentioned by name in the Norman Domesday Book; at that time it formed a part of the manor of Stepney.

Little remains of early Hackney, except the Tudor St Augustine's Tower, which survives as Hackney's oldest building (see picture above). The churchyard, Hackney Brook, and the surrounding villages prevented Hackney's expansion, and by 1605 the village had a lower rateable value than the other divisions of the parish. In Tudor times there were a number of fine houses along Church Street, but many Tudor courtiers lived in nearby Homerton. On the site of Brooke House college, in Clopton was sited one of Henry VIII's palaces, where his daughter Mary took the Oath of Supremacy. Her guardian was Henry's Principal Secretary of State Ralph Sadleir, a resident of Bryck Place, Homerton.

A further cluster of houses existed in medieval times, where Well Street enters Mare Street. The Loddiges family founded their extensive plant nursery business on open ground to the north-east of here in the 18th century.

The villages of Hackney, Lower Clapton and Homerton remained separated by fields into the 19th century. The fine houses remained, with large gardens behind. Artisans and labourers lived in cottages established in these gardens. There was not the room, or the will, for major rebuilding in the village. By 1800, St Thomas' Square, a Georgian square was laid out on the southern end of Mare Street. By the 20th century, these buildings had declined and were replaced with public housing. An early 18th-century mansion, now the New Landsdown Club, but once the headquarters of Elizabeth Fry's British Ladies' Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners remains at 195 Mare Street. It is Grade II* listed, but in poor condition and on the English Heritage register of buildings at risk. In neighboring Homerton, (to the east of the churchyard) Sutton Place was built by 1806, near Sutton House.

During the Victorian era, many of the old buildings were swept away and the estates broken up to form streets of terraced housing. The change from rural suburb to firmly urban, was marked by the arrival of the railway in 1850, with a great iron rail bridge crossing Mare Street. Trams began to make their appearance on the streets in the 1870s, and a tram depot opened in 1882 on Bohemia Place.

The London Borough of Hackney is a London Borough in Inner London, United Kingdom. The historical and administrative heart of Hackney is Mare Street, which lies 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Charing Cross. Southern and eastern parts of the borough are popularly regarded as being part of east London, with the north-west belonging to north London.

The modern borough was formed 1965 by the merger of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney with the much smaller Metropolitan Boroughs of Stoke Newington and Shoreditch.

Hackney is bounded by Islington to the west, Haringey to the north, Waltham Forest to the north-east, Newham to the east, Tower Hamlets to the south-east and the City of London to the south-west.

Hackney was one of the host boroughs of the London Olympics in 2012, with several of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park venues falling within its boundaries.

Hackney's one claim to fame within the world of the British Empire was the introduction of the first taxis in the region, originally known as Hackney carriages.

Cemeteries (Civil)
Beckenham Cemetery and Crematorium


 * Elmers End Rd
 * Beckenham BR3 4TD

Biggin Hill Cemetery


 * Kingsmead Road
 * Biggin Hill, Westerham TN16 3UB
 * Phone: +44 1689 853617

Bromley Hill Cemetery


 * Bromley Hill
 * Bromley BR1 4JU
 * Phone: +44 1689 853617

Chislehurst Cemetery


 * Beaverwood Rd
 * Chislehurst BR7 6HF
 * Phone: +44 1689 853617

London Road Cemetery


 * 7 Warner Rd
 * Bromley BR1 3RR
 * Phone: +44 1689 853617

Plaistow Cemetery


 * Entrance, 132 Burnt Ash Ln
 * Bromley BR1 5AF

Parishes
Bromley Parish Church


 * 9 St Paul's Square
 * Bromley, BR2 0XH
 * Tel: 020 8460 6275

St Mary's


 * College Rd
 * Bromley BR1 3QG
 * Phone: +44 20 8466 6969

St Mary the Virgin


 * Hayes St
 * Bromley BR2 7LH
 * Phone: +44 20 8462 1373

Christ Church


 * Highland Road
 * Bromley, Kent BR1 4AA
 * Phone: 020 8464 1898

St Mark's


 * Westmoreland Rd
 * Bromley BR2 0TB
 * Phone: +44 20 8460 6220

St John's


 * Park Rd
 * Bromley BR1 3HJ
 * Phone: +44 20 8460 1844

St George's


 * High St
 * Beckenham BR3 1AX
 * Phone: +44 20 8663 6996

Christ Church


 * 1A Christ Church Rd
 * Beckenham BR3 3LE
 * Phone: +44 20 8650 3847

All Saints


 * Trewsbury Rd
 * London SE26 5DP
 * Phone: +44 20 8778 3065

St John's


 * St John's Rd
 * London SE20 7EQ
 * Phone: +44 20 8778 6176

All Saints, Orpington


 * Bark Hart Rd ,
 * Orpington BR6 0QD
 * Phone: +44 1689 832031

St Martin of Tours


 * 5 Church Rd
 * Chelsfield, Orpington BR6 7RF
 * Phone: +44 1689 825749

St Nicholas'


 * 18 Church Row
 * Chislehurst BR7 5PG

Christ Church, Chislehurst


 * 40 Lubbock Rd
 * Chislehurst BR7 5JJ
 * Phone: +44 20 8402 5081

Non Conformists

 * Baptist
 * Christ Church
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * Coptic Orthodox
 * Cornerstone Christian Church
 * Evangelical
 * Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Lutheran
 * Methodist
 * Redeemed Christian Church of God
 * Roman Catholic
 * Salvation Army
 * Seventh Day Adventist

There are a number of communities of non Christian religions including the following:


 * Buddhist
 * Scientology
 * Confucian
 * Jews
 * Muslim
 * Sikh

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the UK government from July 1837 to the present day. Prior to that, the only available records were those kept by the ecclesiastical bodies. As the Borough of Bromley was previously part of the County of Kent, the link to Kent County BMD records is listed below.


 * Bromley BMD records


 * ukbmd: Bromley Registration District


 * bmd certificates uk: Bromley


 * ukbmd: County of Kent

Local Histories

 * Bromley Council local history


 * british history on line: Bromley


 * Beckenham History on line


 * hidden london: Penge


 * british history on line: Orpington


 * british history on line: Chistlehurst


 * Bromley: A History and Celebration by John Ruler

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Bromley Borough Ward map


 * old maps on line: Bromley


 * viamichelin: Bromley


 * hidden london: Bromley Gazetteer

Newspapers

 * The Bromley Times


 * The London Evening Standard, Bromley


 * Search Old newspapers for Bromley

Occupations
A large part of the northwest segment of Bromley Borough is residential, and residents commute daily to work in the Greater London area. Because this area of Kent is a very high cost property market, most are employed in the finance, legal, and corporate governance segment of the market.

About 30% of the land in Bromley is farmland, the highest figure of a London Borough. This part of Kent is known colloquially as the garden of England, and agriculture provides many of the local area residents employment. Kent is the largest area in the UK for the growth of hops (for beer brewing) and there are many oast houses still operation in the area. However due to their unique design, many have been converted to residences. There are many large market gardens, providing fruit and vegetables to the grater London area.

The town has a large retail area, including a pedestrianized High Street and The Glades center, the main shopping mall. The shopping area includes retailers such as Gap, Oasis, Russell & Bromley and Waterstone's, whilst there are also many restaurants.

The area is also such a beautiful part of the UK that many opportunities are available in the vacation and holiday industry. Several of the large ports with ferries to the Continent are close by, providing a base for the multitude of "B&B" homes in Bromley Borough.

Several large companies based in the area that provide employment opportunities are: Allied Carpets HQ, Churchill Insurance, Cosmos Holidays, and Russel and Bromley Ltd.

Societies

 * Northwest Kent Family History Society


 * Bromley Borough History Society


 * Kent Family History Society

Archives

 * Archives and records, Bromley Borough


 * Bromley Archives.org


 * The National Archives: Bromley


 * The National Archives: Penge


 * Visit Chislehurst Archives

Web Sites

 * London Borough of Bromley


 * Bromley wikipedia


 * Beckenham wikipedia


 * Penge wikipedia


 * Orpington wikipedia


 * Chislehurst wikipedia


 * Kent County Council


 * Greater London Council