Highbury St Saviour, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HIGHBURY, a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry in Islington parish, Middlesex. The suburb stands on the New River and on the North London railway, 3 miles N of St. Paul's.

St Saviour Aberdeen Park Highbury was a conscription church (built at the expense of the Reverend W. D. Wallace) and "built fronting the eastern side of the extension [of Aberdeen Park] in 1866."

T F T Baker, C R Elrington, eds. A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, Patricia E C Croot, 'Islington: Growth: Highbury', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes, 37-41. (Victoria County History, 1985), Online here. Accessed: 27 April 2010.

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
Highbury St Saviour 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

Websites
Highbury St Saviour in Islington on GENUKI