Stoke Newington St Mary, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Stoke Newington St Mary, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
NEWINGTON, STOKE St. Mary, a parish, in the union of Hackney, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, County of Middlesex, 3 miles north and east of London. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, and Unitarians. Abney Park public cemetery is also found in this parish with a chapel.

STOKE-NEWINGTON, a metropolitan suburb and a parish in Middlesex. The parish is a sub-district of Hackney district. There are several dissenting chapels.

The "Victoria County History" of Stoke Newington (1985) is available online. It includes chapters on manors, estates, economic history, local government, churches, Roman Catholicism, Protestant nonconformity, Judaism, education, and charities for the poor.

Additional information:

St Mary Newington is an ancient parish created approximately in the year 1561. The Abney Park Trust has created a Surname Database of those buried here.

William Robinson, "The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Stoke Newington in the County of Middlesex".

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.

Church records
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use 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.

Probate records
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.

Manorial Records
Records survive for Stoke Newington Manor (1329-1900). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

Poor Law Unions
Maps and Gazetteers Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place. Here two excellent tools for aiding England genealogical research:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Stoke Newington on GENUKI