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England London Boroughs  Bexley

Guide to London Borough of Bexley 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. The Borough was formed from Bexley and parts of Erith, Crayford Urban District, and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District. Researchers should instead consider researching Bexley and its associated villages and towns in its original county of Kent.

Prior to the 19th century the area now forming the Borough was sparsely populated: very few of the present settlements were mentioned in the Domesday Book, although the village of Bexley has a charter dated 814AD. Within the district, Erith was a port on the River Thames until the 17th century; the opening of the sewage works at nearby Crossness in the late 19th century turned it into an industrial town.

Today's settlement pattern is the result of the gradual extension of the London influence. Until the 19th century it was an area with a few isolated buildings such as the Georgian Danson House. With the coming of the railways building began apace, although the area is still composed of many disconnected settlements, interspersed with area of open ground and parks.

Erith had been the earliest area of the Borough to be developed. Before the Civil War it possessed its own Mayor and Corporation, but Charles II revoked its charter in 1660, leaving responsibility for local government divided between the Parish Vestry and the still functioning Manorial Courts. After the opening of the Crossness sewage plant in 1865 Erith was transformed from a small riverside resort into an industrial port. The existing administrative structures proved unsatisfactory so Erith Local Board was established under the Public Health Act 1875 to act as the sanitary authority for the Parish. About the same time a new town began to grow up along the London to Dover Road, where it crossed Bexley heath. The common lands of Bexley had been enclosed by special Act of Parliament in 1819, which facilitated the building of private houses there. The town was still administered by Bexley Parish Vestry, but this arrangement proved unpopular with the people of Bexley heath. One result of this was the creation of a separate Bexley heath Burial Board in 1852. In 1880 a solution was found by the creation of a Bexley Local Board, similar to the one at Erith.

Bexley, Crayford and Erith were small towns of two to four thousand inhabitants and there were some small villages and hamlets but open country predominated. Most men worked on the land or on jobs closely allied to agriculture. There was very little industry. Local government was largely in the hands of the parish vestries. By the end of Victoria's reign the coming of the railway had made it possible to live locally but work in London. Some of the large estate had been transformed into streets of suburban villas and the new middle-class commuters who lived in them attracted tradesmen and domestic servants to the area. The railway also brought industry and this in turn meant more jobs and more houses for the workers. Most of the district was still rural in appearance. The big housing developments did not begin until the 1920's. During this period there had been great changes in local government and social services and the structure of society was infinitely more complex than it had been 60 years before.

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

 * Haringey Council History


 * Hornsey Historical org: Harringay history


 * hidden london: Tottenham


 * british history on line: Hornsey


 * Hornsey Past by Steven Deerhead


 * Tottenham: A History by Christine Protz

Maps and Gazetteers

 * google maps: London Borough of Haringey


 * oldmapsonline: Haringey


 * francisfrith: old maps of Hornsey


 * francisfrith: old maps of Tottenham


 * hiddenlondon: Hornsey Vale


 * hiddenlondon: Tottenham

Newspapers

 * Tottenham and Wood Green Independent


 * newspaperarchive.co: Heringey


 * The Guardian: Tottenham

Occupations
The Haringey BOrough is home to a number of professional and amateur sporting groups. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, currently in the FA Premier League, play at White Hart Lane, which is located in the borough on Tottenham High Road. The borough also has two Non-League football clubs, Haringey Borough F.C. and Greenhouse London F.C., who both play at Coles Park.

London Skolars are a rugby league team that compete in Kingstone Press League 1. They play at New River Stadium in Wood Green, Haringey. The annual Middlesex 9s rugby league tournament also takes place at the New River Stadium.

The borough's ice hockey team, the Haringey Greyhounds, currently play at Alexandra Palace. Alexandra Palace has also hosted other events including the PDC World Darts Championship and a number of Boxing events.

In the business sector, Haringey offers a plethora of occupational opportunities. In 2016, there were 12,150 businesses in Haringey employing a total of 66,000 people. This accounted for 1.3% of all employment in London.

Haringey's economy is dominated by small businesses with 93.9% of businesses employing fewer than 10 people.

The main sectors of employment in Haringey are:

Wholesale and Retail trade, and Retail and wholesale distribution -– 18.2% Health and social work - 19.0% Real estate, renting and business activities - 15.3% Education - 12.18% Manufacturing - 8.3% Public administration - 6.8% Health and social work – 10.6% Accommodation & Food Service activities -– 9.1% Professional, Scientific & Technical activities - 7.6% Administrative and Support Service activities - 6.8% Transportation & Storage – 6.1% Manufacturing – 4.5% Public administration & Defense; Compulsory Social Security – 4.5% Construction - 4.5% Manufacturing - 4.5% Arts, Entertainment and Recreation – 4.5% Information & Communication – 3.8% Real estate activities - 3% Financial & Insurance activities – 1.1% Water supply, Sewerage, Waste management & Remediation activities – 0.6% Other Service activities – 3% Source.

The principal shopping areas in the borough are Wood Green and Turnpike Lane, Muswell Hill, Crouch End, Harringay and Tottenham Hale. Haringey is situated within the growth corridor connecting London with Stansted (major airport), Cambridge (University and associated employment opportunities) and Peterborough (General light industry).

Societies

 * London, Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society


 * Hornsey Historical Society


 * Haringey Borough local history

Archives

 * Haringey Borough Archives


 * The National Archives: Haringey


 * The National Archives: Middlesex

Web Sites

 * Haringey Borough Council


 * wikipedia: Harringay


 * wikipedia: London Borough of Haringey


 * wikipedia: Middlesex


 * wikipedia: Tottenham