Woburn Square, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Woburn Square, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BLOOMSBURY, or St. George Bloomsbury, a parish, which is also a subdistrict, in the district of St. Giles, Middlesex; in Finsbury borough, about 1¼ mile WNW of St. Paul's, London. Acres, 122. Real property, with St. Giles-in-the-Fields, £299,540. Pop. in 1841, 16,981; in 1861, 17,392. Houses, 1,990. It was originally part of St. Giles-in-the-Fields parish, and was separately constituted in 1729. It includes Bloomsbury Square, Russell Square, Woburn Square and part of Torrington Square, together with intermediate and adjacent streets.

Additional information:

Christ Church, Woburn Square Bloomsbury, was originally part of St Giles-in-the-Fields, built in 1831 as a Chapel-of-Ease to that parish. In 1902 it was separated and became its own parish called Bloomsbury Christ Church Woburn Square. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Giles-in-the-Fields.

1848 parish description: Trinity Church, Woburn Square is a parish in Holborn. It is adjacent to the City of London, in the hundred of Ossulstone, Middlesex. The patron is the Rector of St. George’s.

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
Woburn Square 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
Woburn Square in Bloomsbury on GENUKI