Bethnal Green St Thomas, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
St. Thomas was built by 1844 as a chapelry within the civil parish boundary of St Matthew Bethnal Green. There were places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Methodists, in addition toothers.

By 1851, Bethnal Green's church attendance population was 11,752 of the Church of England, and 11,791 Nonconformists. In modern times, its 50 percent Muslim and 37.5 percent Church of England.

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
Bethnal Green on GENUKI