St Sepulchre, Middlesex Genealogy

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Parish History
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St Sepulchre, the church of, is situated on Snow Hill, at the corner of Giltspur Street, and is so named in commemoration of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. This church is supposed to have been founded about 1100, at which time a particular devotion was paid to the Holy Sepulchre. It was decayed in the reign of Edward IV as to require rebuilding. In the reign of Henry I, it was given by the Bishop of Salisbury to the Prior and Canons of St Bartholomew, in Smithfield. At the dissolution of that ministry it came to the crown till it was granted by James I to Francis Phipps and others. After which the rectory,...was purchased by the parishioners, and the advowson of the vicarage, by the President and Fellows of St John's College, Oxford. The church was much damaged by the great fire of 1666, when it was repaired... It is a vicarage in the city, archdeaconry and diocese of London, and in the patronage of St John's College, Oxford.

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.

General
Images of surviving parish registers are browseable in the following online collection (some names are indexed):


 * London, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry ($).

Baptisms
The following spans of records are indexed in England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (courtesy: FamilySearch):


 * Christenings 1801-1811 (Batch C021052)

Marriages
Marriages from 1780 to 1837 are indexed in:


 * Pallot's Marriage Index for England, available online, courtesy: Ancestry ($).

Browseable images of St Mary Mountshaw [Mounthaw] Parish marriages from 1754 to 1849 and St Mary Somerset Parish from 1754 to 1877 are available online (some names are indexed):


 * London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, courtesy: Ancestry ($).

The following spans of records are indexed in England Marriages, 1538-1973 (courtesy: FamilySearch):


 * Marriages 1801-1811 (Batch M021052)

Marriages from 1639 to 1640 and 1754 to 1837 are indexed in:


 * Boyd's Marriage Index, courtesy: Find My Past ($)

Burials
Burials from 1813 to 1820 are indexed in:


 * City of London Burials, available online, courtesy: Find My Past ($).

St. Michael Wood Street's burials are not presently included in Boyd's London Burial Index or the National Burial Index.

Boundary
To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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

St Michael Wood Street Parish fell under the jurisdiction of the Archdeaconry Court of London.

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.

Poor Law Unions
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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

Web sites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue