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England London Boroughs  Haringey

Guide to London Borough of Haringey ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



History
As with most of the other London Boroughs, the British Government action of 1965 destroyed all traces of the original settlements from the point of view of Family History. Researchers should instead consider researching Harringay in its original county of Middlesex, no longer a functioning county.

In the Ice Age Harringay was on the edge of a huge glacial mass that reached as far south as Muswell Hill.

Prior to the Romans' arrival, Haringey was part of a large area covering Essex and Middlesex which was home to a Celtic tribe called Trinobantes.

The Romans' presence is evidenced chiefly by the roads they built through the area. Tottenham High Road was part of the main Roman thoroughfare of Ermine Street. There have also been Roman finds in the borough which suggests possible Roman settlement.

In the 5th and 6th centuries the Saxon invasions brought Haering, the chieftain whose name still lives on today in local place names.

The area was then largely covered with forest until the Middle Ages when it was developed as agricultural land. From 1750 to 1880 Harringay experienced the pressures of the burgeoning population in London. Gradually inroads into the pastoral landscape were made, first for the leisure and then for the settlement of Londoners.

Haringey remained a rural area until the 18th century when large country houses close to London became increasingly common. The coming of the railways from the mid-nineteenth century onward led to rapid urbanization; by the turn of the century much of Haringey had been transformed from a rural to an urbanized environment. = By 1900 Harringay had become a respectable outer London suburb with all the land built over and only Finsbury Park remaining as a hint of its former character. Identified as a single unified urban area from 1900, Harringay was originally split between the old boroughs of Hornsey and Tottenham with the boundary between the two running slightly to the west of Green Lanes

The unification of the two boroughs in 1965, as the London Borough of Haringey, brought all Harringay under the control of a single unit of local governance for the first time in more than a thousand years. On many of the roads in West Harringay, it is still possible to see the old Tottenham - Hornsey boundary where the paving stones give way to tarmacked pavement. The old parish / borough boundary markers are also still in place on some roads.

Cemeteries (Civil)
Please note that the new Borough of Haringey has disbanded management of the cemeteries within its boundaries. The cemeteries are now managed by a private company, Dignity Funerals Ltd. The following information identifies what is known about all cemeteries in the Borough.

Wood Green Cemetery


 * Wolves Lane
 * Wood Green, London, Old Postal Code N22
 * Telephone: 020 8363 8324

Tottenham Cemetery


 * White Hart Lane
 * Tottenham, London, Old Postal Code N17
 * Telephone: 020 8363 8324

Enfield Cemetery and Crematorium


 * Great Cambridge Road
 * Enfield, London EN1 4DS
 * Telephone: 020 8363 8324

Parishes
St Benet Fink


 * Walpole Rd
 * London, N17 6BH
 * Tel: 020 8888 4541

St John the Baptist

Tel: 020 8808 4120
 * Great Cambridge Rd
 * London, N17 8LP

All Hallows


 * Church Ln
 * London N17 7AA

St Paul the Apostle


 * 60 Park Ln
 * London N17 0JR
 * Phone: +44 20 8808 7297

Holy Trinity


 * Philip Ln
 * Tottenham, London N15 4GZ
 * Phone: +44 20 8801 3021

St Philip the Apostle


 * Philip Ln
 * London N15 4HJ

Church of the Good Shepherd


 * Mitchley Rd
 * London N17 9HG
 * Phone: +44 20 8808 6644

St Anne's


 * Avenue Rd
 * London N15 5JH
 * Phone: +44 20 8211 8710

St Mary the Virgin


 * 4 Lansdowne Rd
 * London N17 9XE
 * Phone: +44 20 8808 6644

Non Conformists

 * Baptist
 * Church of Destiny
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * Evangelical
 * High Cross URC
 * Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Methodist
 * Pentecostal
 * Roman Catholic
 * Rhema Word church
 * Salvation Army
 * Seventh Day Adventist

There are a number of communities of non Christian religions including the following:


 * Buddhist
 * Scientology
 * Confucian
 * Jewish
 * Muslim
 * Sikh

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the UK government from July 1837 to the present day. Prior to that, the only available records were those kept by the ecclesiastical bodies.


 * Haringey Borough BMD office


 * ukbmd.org: Haringey


 * freebmd.org: Haringey

Local Histories

 * hidden london: Hillingdon


 * London Borough of Hillingdon: History


 * british history on line: Hillingdon and Uxbridge


 * vision of britain: Hillingdon


 * Northwood through time by Eileen Boult


 * Uxbridge, Hillingdon and Cowley History

Maps and Gazetteers

 * maplandia.com: Hillingdon


 * old maps on line: Hillingdon


 * francis frish: old maps of Uxbridge


 * genuki uk Hillingdon gazetteer


 * hidden london: Uxbridge gazetteer


 * hidden london: Cowley

Newspapers

 * The Hillingdon Times


 * getwestlondon: all about Hillingdon


 * uxbridge and west drayton gazette

Occupations
Hillingdon has a large economy by national standards, ranked 14th out of 408 local area districts in Britain, and ranked 5th out of the London boroughs. A large part of the employment opportunities in the Borough are related to aerospace and avionics, and the UK's largest airport, London Heathrow, is located within its boundaries.

British Airways is headquartered in Waterside, Harmondsworth, in Hillingdon. The building officially opened in 1998. Prior to the opening of Waterside, the airline's head office was the Speedbird House at London Heathrow Airport. An office of American Airlines is located at the Orient House (HAA3) within Waterside. Other major airlines have main offices within the Borough.

British Midland International has an office in Stockley Close, West Drayton, Borough of Hillingdon. In July 1999 Sir Michael Bishop formally opened the British Midland Training Center, which is located in Stockley Close. Hellenic Imperial Airways has its United Kingdom offices in the Axis House in Harlington in the London Borough of Hillingdon. China Airlines has its UK office in the Hyde Park Hayes 3 (HPH3) in Hayes in the borough.

In 2007 Cadbury Schweppes announced it would be moving to Uxbridge from Mayfair to cut costs. The company later split and Cadbury plc moved to its new head office in Cadbury House in the Uxbridge Business Park in June 2008.

Guoman Hotel Management (UK) Limited has its head office in the Thistle London Heathrow in West Drayton.

Since its opening in 1986 the world renowned Stockley Park has provided the perfect work place environment for many international blue chip companies including Apple, Cannon, Glaxo Smith Kline, Marks and Spencer and Sharp. Coca-Cola, GSK and Hertz are located nearby.

To provide education for the area, as well as providing major employment opportunities in education, further education comprises of Harrow and Uxbridge College (HCUC), which supports campuses at both Uxbridge and Hayes. Uxbridge College has been rated as outstanding by Ofsted.

The borough also prides itself on having two universities: Brunel with its focus on science and engineering and Bucks New which provides a wide range of courses.

Societies

 * Hillingdon Family History Society


 * London, Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society


 * West Middlesex FHS

Archives

 * Hillingdon Borough archives


 * The National Archives: Hillingdon Borough


 * artuk: Hillingdon Archives


 * genuki uk Middlesex Archives


 * newspaper archives: Middlesex

Web Sites

 * wikipedia London Borough of Hillingdon


 * wikipedia, Hillingdon


 * wikipedia, Uxbridge


 * wikipedia, Middlesex


 * Hillingdon Borough Council