Shoreditch St James, Curtain Road, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Shoreditch St James, Curtain Road, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SHOREDITCH, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex; forming a north-eastern portion of the metropolis, and, with Haggerston and Hoxton. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyan and other Methodists.

Additional information:

Curtain Road or, otherwise known as Shoreditch St James, Curtain Road began functioning as a district church in 1839 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Leonard Shoreditch.

Here's a list of District Churches and Chapels in St Leonard Shoreditch:


 * All Saints Haggerston - 1855
 * Aske’s Hospital Chapel, Hackney - 1696- Baptisms 1731-1744 ; Marriages 1696-1753
 * Christ Church, Hoxton - 1839
 * Geffreye’s Almshouses Chapel, Kingsland Rd - 1794
 * Holy Trinity, Beechwood Rd, Dalston - 1879
 * Holy Trinity, Bletchley St, Hoxton - 1848
 * Holy Trinity Shoreditch - 1866
 * Merchant Taylor’s School Mission -
 * St Augustine Haggerston - 1863 (part from Bethnal Green parishes)
 * St Agatha Haggerston - 1871
 * St Bartholomew Dalston – 1879
 * St Chad Haggerston - 1863
 * St Columba Haggerston - 1863
 * St Andrew Hoxton - 1863
 * St Anne Hoxton - 1865
 * St James, Curtain Road - 1839
 * St John the Baptist, Hoxton - 1826
 * St Mark Old Street Road - 1848
 * St Mark Dalston w/ St. Bartholomew - 1871
 * St Mark St Mark’s Rise, Dalston - 1870
 * St Mary Haggerston Rd, Haggerston - 1829
 * St Mary Hoxton - 1866
 * St Michael, Mark St, Shoreditch - 1862
 * St Paul, Broke Rd, Haggerston - 1893
 * St Paul Haggerston - 1861
 * St Paul Haggerston - 1858
 * St Peter Hoxton Square - 1869
 * St Philip Dalston - 1844
 * St Saviour Hoxton - 1862
 * St Stephen, Goldsmith’s Row, Haggerston - 1864

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
Shoreditch St James, Curtain Road parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

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
Shoreditch on GENUKI