St Alban Wood Street with St Olave Silver Street, London Genealogy

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Parish History
"St Alban Wood Street, with St. Olave Silver Street, Cheapside, is situated about the middle of the East side. It is an indifferent attempt at the appointed style of architecture by Sir Christopher Wren, who, it is clear by this and other of his churches in the ancient English style of Gothic architecture, had but little knowledge and feeling for this appropriate and elegant style of ecclesiastical architecture.  It is dedicated to St. Alban, the Anglo -- proto-martyr who suffered under the persecution of Diocletian, and gave his name to the ancient town in the Abbey of St. Alban, in Hertfordshire.  The first church on the site was erected in the year 930, and dedicated to the same.  After various repairs, the ancient church was taken down in 1634, and another corrected, that was destroyed by the great fire of London in 1666, when the present edifice was erected after the same plan as the former. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of Eton College [Buckinghamshire], and the Dean and chapters St. Paul's, alternately; and the parish of St. Olave, Silver Street, was united to it after the fire."

Today, only the tower of St Alban Wood Street stands.

St Olave Silver Street Parish was also spelled St Olave Silverstreet Parish.

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.

St Olave Silver Street Parish
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.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Cripplegate Ward - Seynt Albons in Woodstrete, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Cripplegate Ward - Parte of Seynt Olave Parish in Silverstrete, courtesy: British History Online

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Cripplegate Ward - St Albones Parishe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Cripplegate Ward - St Alphage &amp; St Olaves Parishes, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Within - St Fosters &amp; St Olaves Parishes, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Within - St Olaves Parishe in Mugwell Streat, courtesy: British History Online

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Alban's, Wood Street, courtesy: British History Online
 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Olave, Silver Street, courtesy: British History Online

1645 Subsidy

 * St Alban, Wood Street, Cripplegate Ward Within, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/590 Part 5); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Alban Wood Street, courtesy: British History Online
 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Olave Silver Street, courtesy: British History Online

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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.

Before 1858, St Alban Wood Street fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London. St Olave Silver Street fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Archdeaconry of London. In practice, many St Olave Silver Street residents left their wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury from the 1700s through 1858. From 1858 to the present, refer to the Principal Probate Registry.

Go to London Probate Records to find the names of the courts having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Unions
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Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Alban Wood Street Parish records)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Olave Silver Street Parish records)
 * Society of Genealogists Library Catalogue (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Alban' or 'London St Olave Silver Street')