St George the Martyr, Middlesex Genealogy

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



Parish History
St. George the Martyr, Holborn is adjacent to the City of London, in the hundred of Ossulstone, Middlesex. The patron is the Duke of Buccleuch.

'St George the Martyr, [lies in the parish of St Andrew Holborn], the church of, is situated in Queen Square, Bloomsbury, at the southwest corner, or the north end of Gloucester Street, going from Theobalds Road. This church was originally built in 1705, by Sir Streynsham Master, Governor of Fort St. George, in the East Indies, and some other wealthy inhabitants of its neigbourhood. It was afterwards purchased by the commissioners for building fifty new churches, and a district apportioned to it as a parish. It was consecrated as a parish church in 1723, and dedicated to St George in allusion to the governorship of its principal founder. It was a plain brick, of a most conventicle like appearance, till it was repaired, and its present two elegant fronts and bell tower, added about seven years ago [about 1824]... It is a rectory in the county and archdeaconry of Middlesex, in the diocese of London and in the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch.'

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

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
St George the Martyr in Holborn on GENUKI