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Historical Background of London's Parishes
Click here to read a contemporary description of the parishes within the environs of the City of London from James Elmes,  Topographical Dictionary of London (published in 1831). Each parish is listed under the name of the patron saint to which it was dedicated, i.e. St Mary Abchurch, will be listed under the "M" section under "Mary", or, St Lawrence Jewery will be listed under the "L" section under "Lawrence", and St Andrew Holborn, under the "A" section under "Andrew".

Click here to read a description of the City of London from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (published in 1870-72). 

Photographs of many of London's churches may be viewed online at the Friends of the City Churches website. (See Indexes of Churches.)

Parishes
Click on parishes by the name of patron saint to which it was dedicated. Here is a List of London City Parishes and their complete names.

Here is a list of all City of London parishes. Click on the beginning letter to the parish of interest, to find further information the particular one of your ancestor's residence or parish of birth, marriage or burial. For example, if you are interested in

Census Records
England and Wales census records for all available years--including the 1911 census are indexed and imaged on the findmypast.co.uk website, which is accessed for a per-use fee. Census records for 1841 through 1901 are indexed and imaged on both the The Genealogist and http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com] websites, which are accessed by subscription fee or may be available for free at libraries near you. All three websites are available to patrons at no cost at theFamily History Libraryin Salt Lake City, and at some Regional Family History Centers in Los Angeles, Provo, UT, Maryland, New York City, and London.

Church Records
Just about all of the City of London's parishes, Inns of court, and liberty precincts are held at the Guildhall Library, London. Also, because these registers (to CMBs) have largely been transcribed and published in books over the past century, copies of these may be available at:


 * books.google.com.
 * The Guildhall Library, London
 * The Society of Genealogists, London
 * The National Archives, UK
 * The British Library, London
 * The Family History Library (&amp; its satellite family history centers have access to the 90 percent held at the FHL)
 * Major research libraries and other archives in the UK and abroad
 * Christening and marriage data has just about been completely transcribed and indexed and made available for most of the above 90 percent of the City of London's parish register holdings at the FHL and, now are available online in the IGI (International Genealogical Index) at FamilySearch.org. The parishes and their parish register data which have not currently been posted online in the IGI, include the following ones:


 * 1) All Hallows Barking
 * 2) All Hallows Lombard Street
 * 3) St Alphage
 * 4) St Bartholomew the Less
 * 5) St Benet Gracechurch
 * 6) St Dunstan in the West
 * 7) St Katherine Coleman
 * 8) St Leonard Foster Lane
 * 9) St Michael le Querne
 * 10) St Michael Crooked Lane
 * 11) St Nicholas Olave
 * 12) St Olave Silver Street
 * 13) St Paul's Cathedral
 * 14) The Temple
 * 15) Most of the Inns, liberties


 * Webb, Cliff. Some London Burials, Post-1812. 1979. . Includes the churches of Allhallows, Lombard Street; St. Dionis Backchurch; St. Magnus, the Martyr; St. Mary at Hill; St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street; St. Michael Paternoster Royal; Allhallows Staining; St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate; St. Dunstan in the East; St. James Garlickhythe; Allhallows the Great and Less United; St. Mary Aldermanbury; and St. Michael Bassishaw.
 * Marrying London by Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes: 'Penny Weddings'

Church Records in the Collection of the Family History Library
The Family History Library has just over 90 percent of the City of London's original parish registers on microfilm. These can circulated to any one of its 4500 family history centers worldwide.

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Neighboring Parishes
Include the names, and link to the parish pages, of the contiguous parishes.

Census
Add unique information about the censuses. Add links to online census records, and/or link to the Family History Library

Cemetery Records
Add the names and condition of the cemeteries in the parish. Add information if each cemetery has been indexed, added to the Internet, published or the name of the group which is transcription the headstones.

Civil Registration
Add any unique facts about registration in the parish. Link to online sites to search for names, such as FreeBMD. Add the address, or link to the address, of the superintendent registrar.

Probate Records
For details about the probate records for this parish, click here.

Maps and Gazetteers
England Jurisdictions 1851 maps are based on multiple sources produced about 1851. Parish boundaries, contiguous parishes, civil registration districts and more are in this Web site. Go here to find a map for Pilton.

Web Sites

 * Anglican Churches, Chapels and Parishes. Records of Anglican Parishes, Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section

1. Find the place where your ancestor lived in the first column. 2. Click on the court name in the second column to learn where to find the records and indexes. 3. Click on each name of the court in the third column if the record isn't found in the first court. 4. Search last the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

If no will is found, your ancestor may not have left one.