East Finchley, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to East Finchley, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
East Finchley Holy Trinity, in Finchley St Mary's Parish, was created a chapelry in the year 1846. The new cemeteries for St. Pancras, London; St. Mary, Islington; and St. Mary-le-Bone, are nearby and within the parish.

Holy Trinity Chapelry was built in 1846. The vicarage of Whetstone is a separate chapel--which see.

There were at least three dissenting churches within the parishes including an Independent chapel, built in 1865, with two additional unknown chapels.

East Finchley had three pre-1900 district churches within itself, as part of the civil borough and parish of Finchley. These churches included the following:


 * Holy Trinity Church Lane which commenced by about 1846
 * All Saints Durham Road, East Finchley which began by about 1891
 * St Paul Long Lane, East Finchley which was built and in service by about 1886

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
East Finchley parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.


 * Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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

Web site
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