Shoreditch St Leonard, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Here's a List of District Churches and Chapels Within St Leonard's Shoreditch Parish.

Parish History
SHOREDITCH (St. Leonard), a parish, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex; forming a north-eastern portion of the metropolis with Haggerston and Hoxton. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents and Wesleyan and other Methodists.

This parish was subdivided into numerous chapelries and district churches by 1900.

Here is a chronological list of District Churches and Chapels in St Leonard Shoreditch:
 * Merchant Taylor’s School Mission -
 * Aske’s Hospital Chapel, Hackney - 1696- Baptisms 1731-1744 ; Marriages 1696-1753
 * Geffrye’s Almshouses Chapel, Kingsland Road - 1794
 * St John the Baptist, Hoxton - 1826
 * St Mary Haggerston Road, Haggerston - 1829
 * Christ Church, Hoxton - 1839
 * St James, Curtain Road - 1839
 * St Philip Dalston - 1844
 * Holy Trinity, Bletchley Street, Hoxton - 1848
 * St Mark Old Street Road - 1848
 * All Saints Haggerston - 1855
 * St Paul Haggerston - 1858
 * St Paul Haggerston - 1861
 * St Michael, Mark Street, Shoreditch - 1862
 * St Saviour Hoxton - 1862
 * St Augustine Haggerston - 1863 (part from Bethnal Green parishes)
 * St Chad Haggerston - 1863
 * St Columba Haggerston - 1863
 * St Andrew Hoxton - 1863
 * St Stephen, Goldsmith’s Row, Haggerston - 1864
 * St Anne Hoxton - 1865
 * Holy Trinity Shoreditch - 1866
 * St Mary Hoxton - 1866
 * St Peter Hoxton Square - 1869
 * St Mark St Mark’s Rise, Dalston - 1870
 * St Agatha Haggerston - 1871
 * St Mark Dalston with St. Bartholomew - 1871
 * Holy Trinity, Beechwood Road, Dalston - 1879
 * St Bartholomew Dalston – 1879
 * St Paul, Broke Road, Haggerston - 1893

Be sure to see the above link to a "List of District Churches and Chapels Within St Leonard's Shoreditch Parish" for a more complete picture as to Shoreditch's ecclesiastical makeup.

Sir Henry Ellis's 1798 history of Shoreditch Parish has been digitized.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: St Leonard Shoreditch at British History Online - free.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Leonard Shoreditch at British History Online - free.

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.

Cemetery
A 1922 survey of monuments within the church and in the churchyard is available online.

Poor Law Union
Baptisms of St Leonard Workhouse from 1835 to 1861 are indexed at FamilySearch in Batch

Baptisms of Shoreditch Workhouse from 1836 to 1873 are indexed at FamilySearch in Batch

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
Shoreditch on GENUKI