Bethnal Green St Bartholomew, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
BETHNAL-GREEN (St. Matthew), is a parish, and a union of itself, in the borough of the Tower Hamlets, Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex. The first stone of St. Bartholomew, in Cambridge-road, was laid 27th Jan. 1842.

The church of St. Bartholomew, in Cambridge-road, was consecrated and in operation by June, 1844. It lay within the civil parish boundary of St Matthew Bethnal Green.

See St Matthew Bethnal Green.

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
To find the names of the neighbouring 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.

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.

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
Bethnal Green on GENUKI