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England London Boroughs  Enfield

Guide to The London Borough of Enfield history, family history, and genealogy parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



History
As with all other London Boroughs created in 1965, Family History research needs to understand that this is a melding of many historic areas. Researchers should plan on using old Middlesex records, as well as referring to the old Boroughs listed below.

The London Borough of Enfield is a London borough in north London, England. The current borough was created in 1965 from the former areas of the Municipal Borough of Southgate, the Municipal Borough of Enfield and the Municipal Borough of Edmonton. The armorial bearings of these three boroughs were also merged. The heraldic beast on the shield of the Enfield coat of arms is known in heraldry as an "Enfield" (or colloquially as the Enfield beast), and is used extensively as a logo representing Enfield, particularly by the borough council.

In Roman times, Enfield was connected to Londinium by Ermine Street, the great Roman road which stretched all the way up to York. Artifacts found in the early 1900s reveal that there were Roman settlements in the areas that are now Edmonton and Bush Hill Park.

In 790 King Offa of Mercia was recorded as giving the lands of Edmonton to St Albans Abbey. The area became strategically important as East Anglia was taken over by the Danes. In the 790s strongholds were built by men loyal to King Alfred the Great, in order to keep the Danes to the east of the River Lea.

Enfield was recorded in Domesday Book in 1086 as Enefelde, and as Einefeld in 1214, Enfeld in 1293, and Enfild in 1564: that is 'open land of a man called Ēana', or 'where lambs are reared', from the Old English feld with an Old English personal name or with Old English ēan 'lamb'. The feld would have been a reference to an area cleared of trees within woodland that would later become known as Enfield Chase.

After the Norman Conquest, both Enfield and Edmonton were mentioned in Domesday Book. Both had churches, and Enfield had 400 inhabitants, Edmonton 300. Enfield is also described as having a "parc". This parc—a heavily forested area for hunting—was key to Enfield's existence in the Middle Ages. Wealthy Londoners came to Enfield first to hunt, and then to build houses in the green, wooded surroundings. In 1303, Edward I of England granted Enfield a charter to hold a weekly market, which has continued up to this day. The old market cross was removed in the early 20th century to make way for a monument to the coronation of King Edward VII.

Nearby historically was the palace of Edward VI, where Elizabeth I lived while a princess, including during the final illness of Henry VIII. Edward was taken there to join her, so that in the company of his sister, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford could break the news to Edward, formally announcing the death of their royal father in the presence chamber at Enfield, on his knees to make formal obeisance to the boy as King. Later Elizabeth held court there when she was queen (this was remembered in the name Palace Gardens that was a street running behind Pearsons department store and is still recalled in the name of Enfield's shopping center).

Cemeteries (Civil)
The Howth


 * Meadowside
 * Dundee DD1 1LN

Balgay Cemetery


 * 153 Blackwood Ct
 * Dundee DD2 2EG

Pitkerro Grove Cemetery


 * Drumsturdy Rd
 * Dundee DD5 3NY

Birkhill Cemetery


 * Templeton Rd
 * Birkhill
 * Dundee DD3 0QH

Parishes
Scotland does not have Anglican Churches as such. Instead the denomination is known as the Scottish Episcopal Church and follows the same liturgy. Dundee also has an Episcopal Cathedral.

St Paul's Cathedral


 * High St
 * Dundee DD1 1TD
 * Phone: +44 1382 224486

St Salvador's


 * St Salvador St
 * Dundee DD3 7EW
 * Phone: +44 1382 221785

St Ninian's


 * 4 Longtown Rd
 * Dundee DD4 8JS
 * Phone: +44 1382 453818

All Soul's Episcopal Church


 * 59 Main St
 * Invergowrie
 * Dundee DD2 5BA
 * Phone: +44 1382 562244

St Mary Magdalene's


 * Dudhope Cres Rd
 * Dundee DD1 5RR

Scottish Episcopal Church


 * 90-92 Queen St
 * Dundee DD5 1AJ

St Margaret's


 * 19 Ancrum Rd
 * Dundee DD2 2J

For outlying parishes in the Dundee area, please go to the Diocese of Brechan: http://www.thedioceseofbrechin.org/.

Although there are many Episcopalian Churches as shown above, the major Church in Dundee, as throughout Scotland, is the Church of Scotland. This denomination broke away from the original Roman Catholic Church in 1560 AD with the reformation work of John Knox, about the same time that Henry VIII broke away and formed the Anglican Church. Knox was greatly influenced by John Calvin, as well as by the work of Martin Luther in what is now Germany.

Logie and St John's Parish Church


 * Shaftesbury Terrace
 * Dundee DD2 1HJ
 * Phone: +44 1382 668514

Stobswell Parish Church


 * 170 Albert St
 * Dundee DD4 6QW
 * Phone: +44 1382 812423

St Luke's


 * Queen Street
 * Broughty Ferry, Dundee DD5 1AU
 * Phone: +44 1382 779212

Fintry Parish Church


 * Fintry Dr
 * Dundee DD4 9HE
 * Phone: +44 1382 458629

Balgay Parish Church


 * 4 Tullideph Rd
 * Dundee DD2 2PN

Lundie Road Church of Scotland


 * Lundie
 * Dundee DD2 5NW

Douglas and Mid Craigie Parish Church


 * Balbeggie Pl
 * Dundee DD4 8RD
 * Phone: +44 1382 731173

Downfield Parish Church


 * 39 Haldane Cres
 * Dundee DD3 0JW

Non Conformists
The following other Christian denominations and religions are also represented in Dundee:


 * Baptists
 * Evangelical
 * City Church
 * Christian Science
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * Grace Church
 * Jehovah's Witness
 * Methodists
 * Presbyterians
 * Roman Catholics
 * Seventh Day Adventist

Non Christian populations include:


 * Buddhists
 * Hindus
 * Jews
 * Muslims
 * Sikhs

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths, have been kept by the UK government from July 1837 to the present day.


 * Dundee BMD Certificates


 * Dundee City BMD records Office


 * National Registry of Scotland

Local Histories

 * Localhistories.org: Dundee


 * VisionofBritain.org: Dundee


 * Undiscovered Dundee by Brian King


 * Dundee, a Very Peculiar History by Fiona McDonald

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Michelin Dundee map


 * oldmapsonline: Dundee


 * National Library of Scotland: map of Dundee


 * visionofbritain.org: Dundee gazetteer


 * genuki: Dundee gazetteer

Newspapers

 * The Courier


 * The Evening Telegraph

Occupations
Dundee is a regional employment and education center for north east Tayside, with around 325,000 people within 30 minutes' drive of the city center and 860,000 people within one hour. Many people from North East Fife, Angus and Perth, and Kinross, commute to the city. As of 2015, there were 395 employers who employed 250 or more staff; over a five-year period (2011-2015) and the number of registered enterprises in Dundee increased by 20.9% from 2,655 to 3,210.

The largest employers in the city are NHS Tayside, Dundee City Council, University of Dundee, Tayside Contracts, Tesco, D. C. Thomson & Co and BT. Other employers include limited and private companies such as NCR, Michelin, Alliance Trust, Aviva, Royal Bank of Scotland, Asda, Stagecoach Strathtay, Tokheim, Scottish Citylink, C J Lang & Son (SPAR Scotland), Joinery and Timber Creations, HBOS, Debenhams, Xplore Dundee, and W. L. Gore and Associates.

The biomedical and biotechnology sectors, including start-up biomedical companies arising from university research, employ just under 1,000 people directly and nearly 2,000 indirectly. Information technology and Video game development have been important industries in the city for more than 20 years.

Dundee is also a key retail destination for North East Scotland and has been ranked 4th in Retail Rankings in Scotland. The city center offers a wide variety of retailers, department stores and independent/specialist stores.

As of the end of 2017, Dundee was adding new jobs at a rate of more than 700 per month. NCR alone is posting for 11 jobs in January of 2018. Other companies showing major growth at the present time (February 2018)are: Logicnow (electronics), GFI Software, Ion Geophysical, and Sciquest.

Societies

 * Tay Valley Family History Society


 * historyscotland.com: Dundee family history


 * abertay Dundee History Society


 * scotlandspeople.org: Dundee family history

Archives

 * Dundee City Archives


 * The National Archives: Dundee City


 * University of Dundee Archives

Web Sites

 * wikipedia, Dundee


 * Dundee City Council


 * Perth and Kinross Council