St Benet Paul's Wharf with St Peter Paul's Wharf, London Genealogy

London St Benet Paul's Wharf with St Peter Paul's Wharf ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
'St Benet Paul's Wharf with St Peter Paul's Wharf, Upper Thames Street, the church of, is situated at the southwest corner of St. Bennet's Hill, Doctors Common; and upper Thames Street. Its name is derived from being dedicated to the same Saint as the last [St Bennet Gracechurch], and from its vicinity to Paul's Wharf. This church is a very ancient foundation, and appears from the registry of Diceto, dean of St. Paul's, under the year 1181. Its distinguishing epithet has been frequently changed, having been called at various times St. Bennet Huda, and St. Bennet, Wood Wharf, as well as by its present appellation.

'The ancient church on this site having been destroyed by the fire of London in 1666, the present building was erected in its stead by Sir Christopher Wren, who finished it in 1683. It is a plain brick structure with some architraves travelers to the windows, and festoons over them. The tower is at the corner, and this surmounted by a small cupola and spire, the finial of which is 118 feet from the ground. The interior is very square, being 54 feet long, and 50 broad, by 36 in height. Since the fire the church is also parochial for the parish of St. Peter, Paul's Wharf, anciently denominated St. Peter's parva, from the smallness of its dimensions, and to which it is united, the church of which was also destroyed at the same time. It is a rectory, and as the patronage of both parishes appear to have been always in the dean in chapter of St. Paul's, ...'

'After obtaining Archbishop's licence from Doctors Commons couples often married at nearby churches such as St Benet Paul's Wharf, St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street or St Gregory by St Pauls.'

These parishes belonged to Queenhithe Ward.

1848 parish description:

St. Benet, Paul's Wharf with St. Peter, are parishes of the city of London Within the Walls. The patron is the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. They are parishes with the poor-law union of the City of London.

Church records
Historically, St Benet Paul's Wharf and St Peter Paul's Wharf were two separate parishes. Each maintained individual parish registers.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Castle Baynard Ward - Parochia Sancti Benedictiat British History Online

1547 Subsidy

 * St Peter, Paul's Wharf, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/152); copy:.

1564 Subsidy

 * St Peter, Paul's Wharf, Castle Baynard Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/219); copy:.
 * St Peter, Paul's Wharf, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/220); copy:.

1577 Subsidy

 * 1576 London Subsidy Roll, St Peters p{ar}ishe at Alan H. Nelson website (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252)
 * St Peter, Paul's Wharf, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Castle Baynard Ward - Saynt Bennettes Parisheat British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Queenhithe Ward - St Peters Parocheat British History Online

1625 Subsidy

 * St Benet, Paul's Wharf, Castle Baynard Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/546); copy:.
 * St Peter, Paul's Wharf, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/526); copy:.

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St. Peter, Paul's Wharfat British History Online.

(see supplements for St Peter Paul's Wharf residents)

1811 Census
The 1811 Census exists for both places.

1821 Census
The 1821 Census of St Benet Paul's Wharf exists and is held at The British Library.

1831 Census
The 1831 Census exists for both places. All residents are named in the St Benet Paul's Wharf returns.

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.

Probate records
Before 1858, St Benet Paul's Wharf with St Peter Paul's Wharf fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London. 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.

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

Cemetery




Find A Grave has created a page on St Benet's Paul's Wharf Churchyard (1 entry).

Records of the Poor
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Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Benet Paul's Wharf Parish)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Peter Paul's Wharf Parish)
 * St Benet: The Metropolitan Welsh Church (official website). Photographs, history, visitor instruction (in English and Welsh).
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