St Botolph Without Aldgate with Holy Trinity Minories, Middlesex Genealogy

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St Botolph without Aldgate Parish
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.

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1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Portsoken Ward - The Mynoryes, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Portsoken Ward - St Buttolphes Paroche, courtesy: British History Online

1625 Subsidies

 * St Botolph without Aldgate, Portsoken Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/514); copy:.
 * St Botolph without Aldgate, Portsoken Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/544); copy:.

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Botolph, Aldgate, courtesy: British History Online

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Botolph Aldgate, courtesy: British History Online

1695 Marriage Duty Act Tax

 * London Marriage Duty Assessment 1695 - St Botolph Aldgate, courtesy: British History Online

1744-1825 Land Tax Assessments
Holy Trinity Minories land tax assessments (1744-1825) have been microfilmed:.

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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.

Over the years, St Botolph Aldgate has belonged to several civil registration districts:

There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.

Before 1858, St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Archdeaconry of London. In practice, many residents left their wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury from the 1700s through 1858. From 1858 to the present, refer to the Principal Probate Registry.

Go to London Probate Records to find the names of the courts having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Officials ascribed mariners who died abroad the residence of St Botolph without Aldgate in their wills.

Records of the Poor

 * St Botolph Aldgate Parish Account Books, Pauper Payments, Pauper Examinations, Apprenticeship Records, Pauper Lists, Minute Books, Vestry Minutes, Pauper Apprentices, Poor Children Registers and Workhouse Admission Records (1600s-1800s), courtesy: London Lives
 * St Botolph Aldgate Poor Law Records 1742-1868, courtesy: British Origins ($). Also available in book form:.

During the seventeenth century, officials gave some foundlings discovered in Holy Trinity Minories Parish the unique surname Minories.

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Parish History
St Botolph Without Aldgate with Holy Trinity Minories was a later district church built in 1893 and residing within the civil parish boundaries of St Botolph without Aldgate (which was also known as East Smithfield Liberty).

"St Botolph, without Aldgate, the church of, is situated at the south-east corners of houndsditch, and nearly opposite hte Minories, in Aldgate High Street. it is one of the four churches in London dedicated by our ancestors to their favourite saint, Botolph the Briton. The old church, which was rebuilt by the prior and canons of the Holy Trinity, a short time before the dissolution of that convent, escaped the fire in 1666; bit it had become so ruinous in 1741, that it was taken down and the present edifice finished in 1744. It is built principally with brick, and is a plain, bold and massive structure, consisting of a regular formed body and a lofty spire on a rusticated tower. This church was a rectory of very ancient foundation, ...It is now a perpetual curacy..."

"Holy Trinity Minories, the church of, it is situated in the Little Minories. It stands on part of the ancient convent of the nuns of St. Clare called the Mineresses, that was founded in 1239 by Edmund Earl of Lancaster, brother of Edward I. This being suppressed, in 1539 a number of houses were erected on its site, and a small church was built for the inhabitants, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, whence it derived its name, it's addition from this situation. This church was rebuilt in a plain substantial manner, in 1706, and is the family burial place of the Legges, Earls of Dartmouth, to one of those ancestors, a house called the Kings, was granted by Charles II. The curators parish for it is neither arbitrary nor vicarage, holds the living by an instrument of donation under the great seal of England. It is in the city, diocese and Archdeaconry of London..."

St Botolph without Aldgate belonged to Aldgate Ward.

St Botolph Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories were clandestine places of marriage in early modern London.

Also known as Holy Trinity in the Minories.

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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * St Botolph without Aldgate (official website). Family history tips, virtual tour, history, visitor instructions.
 * GENUKI: Middlesex, St Botolph Without Aldgate
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Botolph Aldgate)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (Holy Trinity Minories)
 * Society of Genealogists Library Catalogue (to narrow results, conduct subject searches for 'London St Botolph without Aldgate' or 'London Holy Trinity Minories')