Clerkenwell St Mark, Middlesex Genealogy

England Middlesex  Clerkenwell St Mark

Parish History
St Mark Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell, was a district church, partially subdividing and lying within the boundary of the civil parish of St James. It was created and in operation by the year 1827.

St. Mark's, in Myddelton-square, containing 1622 sittings, of which 847 are free, was erected in 1826, by a grant from the Parliamentary Commissioners, at an expense of £16,000, and is a neat edifice in the later English style, with a handsome western front containing a square tower having pierced parapet and pinnacles: the cost of furnishing it, which amounted to £2000, was defrayed by a rate voted by the vestry. The living is a district incumbency; net income, £480; patron, the Bishop of London.

(Adapted from: Guide to Ancestral Research in London; published 1987. & A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 626-632. Their website is | here.)

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
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Census records
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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
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Maps and Gazetteers
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Web sites
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