St Giles Cripplegate, Middlesex Genealogy

England   Middlesex England    Middlesex Parishes

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

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
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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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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