South Hackney St Augustine, Middlesex Genealogy

England Middlesex  Middlesex Parishes

Guide to South Hackney St Augustine, Middlesex family history and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HACKNEY, a parish, forming a union with Stoke Newington, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2 miles (N. E.) from London. Hackney formerly constituted one parish, under the designation of St. John's, consisting of a vicarage and a sinecure rectory. The church of St. John the Baptist, now the church of the central district, or Hackney proper, was erected under an act of parliament obtained in 1791A church, dedicated to St. Peter, was lately erected and endowed in the parish, There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians.

Additional information:

St Augustine South Hackney was one of at least three later district churches to subdivide South Hackney--an area and portion of Hackney St John. It was created and functioning sometime between the years 1860.

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.

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
Hackney on GENUKI