Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapel History
St George Hanover Square, par., Middlesex, in W. of London, 1119 ac., forms the Hanover Square parl. div. of Westminster.

Regent Street (or, known as Archbishop Tenison's Chapel) or, otherwise known as St Thomas, Regent Street, was built in the year 1702 but surviving registers may only commence from 1853. This chapel lay within the parish boundary of St James Piccadilly, Westminster.

1848 parish descripton St. Thomas is a parish in the Borough of Southwark and in Diocese of Winchester. The patron is St. Thomas’ Hospital.

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.

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.

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
Archbishop Tenison's Chapel in St George Hanover Square on GENUKI