Stoke Newington St Mary, Middlesex Genealogy

England   Middlesex   Middlesex Parishes   Stoke Newington St Mary

Parish History
St Mary Newington is an ancient part created approximately in the year 1561.

'NEWINGTON, STOKE St. Mary, a parish, in the union of Hackney, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, County of Middlesex, 3 miles north and east of London.

There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, and Unitarians.

Abney-Park public cemetery is also found in this parish with a chapel.

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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Census records
any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed. 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
Maps and Gazetteers Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place. Here two excellent tools for aiding England genealogical research:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.