St Giles Cripplegate, Middlesex Genealogy

England   Middlesex England    Middlesex Parishes   St Giles Cripplegate

Parish History
"St Giles Cripplegate, the church of, is situated without the walls of London and at the southwest corner of Fore Street, nearly opposite the ends of Red-Cross Street and Whitecross Street. It derives its name from having been dedicated to a saint of that name, who was a native of Athens and flourished about the year 700 of the Christian era, who was abbot of nismes, in France, and its addition from its situation. This church was built and founded about the year 1090, by Alfune, the first master of St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was destroyed by fire in 1545. The present structure was then erected, which is one of the few churches in the city that escaped the great fire of 1666. It is of the pointed or English style of architecture is 174 feet in length, 63 in breadth, and 32 in height.

"The site of this parish was anciently a fen of moor, and its houses and gardens were accounted a village without the walls of London, called Mora, whence the district called the Moor and Moorfields. This village increased greatly, and was constituted a prebend of St Paul's cathedral, which it still continues, under its ancient name, and the prebendary of Mora, or Mora without the Wall of London, hath the north stall on the south side of the choir in St Paul's Cathedral.

"Part of the ancient City [of London] Wall is still remaining on the south and east sides of the church yard, particularly one of the bastions, which is close against the back part of Barber's Hall, in Monkwell Street.

"The church is a vicarage, in the city and archdeaconry of London..."

1. James Elmes, M.R. I. A., Architect. In “A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Envirions,” (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831). Adapted.

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
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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
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Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * Sketch of St. Giles Cripplegate Parish Church, courtesy: London Ancestor