Whitechapel St Paul with St Mark, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Whitechapel St Paul with St Mark, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WHITECHAPEL, a parish and a district in Middlesex. The parish lies 1½ mile E of St. Paul's, London: forms all a compact portion of the metropolis; was part ofStepney parish till 1329; is bisected by the main thoroughfare of Whitechapel High Street, and Whitechapel Road. The places of worship, in 1851, were 11 of the Church of England; five of Independents; five of Baptists; one of Wesleyans; one of German Protestants; one undefined; one of the Catholic and Apostolic church; one of Latter Day Saints; and one of Roman Catholics.

Additional information: St Paul with St Mark Whitechapel was created as a district church as of 1926, in St Mary Whitechapel 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.

Church records
Whitechapel St Paul with St Mark parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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.

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

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Whitechapel on GENUKI