Precinct of St Katherine by Tower, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Precinct of St Katherine by Tower, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
The Precinct of St Katherine's-by-the-Tower incorporates most of the Tower of London, The Royal Hospital, its chapel (by that name), grounds and associated buildings.

The Tower of London was a clandestine place of marriage in early modern London.

Nichols' history of St Katherine near the Tower of London (published 1824) is available online.

The creation of St Katherine's Dock in 1825 drastically decreased the population of this area.

Lea's history of St Katherine near the Tower (published 1878) is available online.

WHITECHAPEL, is a parish and a district in Middlesex. The district contains also East Smithfield liberties, and Tower-of-London, Old-Tower-Without, and St. Katharine-by-the-Tower precincts.

Church records
St Katherine by Tower 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.

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.

1547 Subsidy

 * Tower Ward (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/146), Copy:.

1600 Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: St Katherynes, St Katherynes adhuc, and St Katherines adhuc (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1620 Subsidy

 * Ossulston Hundred, Tower Division: The Tower Hamlets and Whitechapel (The National Archives, Ref: E179/142/254); transcript by Charles Edward Banks:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: St Katherines by the Tower at British History Online - free.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Katherine by the Tower at British History Online - free.

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

Before 1858, fell under the jurisdiction of the Royal Peculiar Court of St Katherine's by the Tower. 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.

Cemetery
A survey of monumental brasses, published 1891, is available online.

Manorial Records
Records survive for St Katherine by the Tower Manor (1779-1824). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue
 * Records of non-parochial Anglican churches and chapels, Anglican Churches, Chapels and Parishes, Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
 * St Katherine by the Tower on GENUKI