Haggerston St Paul, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
St Paul's was consecrated in 1860. The records deposited are all that survive. The others were destroyed when vandals broke into the church in 1970 while it was closed for repairs. In 1971 the benefice and parish were united with St. Michael and All Angels, London Fields, Hackney (P79/MAA) which became the parish church of the united parish.

St Paul Haggerston was a district church created by the year 1861 and lay within the boundaries of the civil parish of St Leonard Shoreditch.

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
Haggerston St Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.


 * Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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.

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