Islington St Mary, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Islington St Mary, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Islington St. Mary, a suburban parish, in the parliamentary borough of Finsbury, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 1½ mile north of London.

There were a considerable number of Church of England chapelries that were built especially in the 19th Century to accommodate the influx of a large local population. Here is a "Comprehensive List of Islington Chapels and District Churches" by the year 1900.

There were places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans Methodists, Presbyterians, Irvingites, Baptists and a Roman Catholic chapel.

The Victoria County History of Islington (1985) is available online. It includes chapters on manors, estates, economic history, local government, churches, Roman Catholicism, Protestant nonconformity, established church of Scotland, missions, Muslims, Hindus, Judaism, education, and charities for the poor.

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.
 * Here is a Comprehensive List of Islington Chapels and District Churches as of 1900.

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.

1600 Lay Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Islington (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Islington at British History Online - free.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * Islington (St Mary) at British History Online - free.

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.

Manorial Records
Records survive for six manors in Islington Parish: Barnsbury Manor (1633-1856), Canonbury Manor (1468-1902), Clerkenwell Manor (1400-1895), Islington Prebend Manor (1573-1900), Newington Barrow (1422-1877), and St John of Jerusalem Manor (1602-1926). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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
Islington on GENUKI