Finsbury St Paul, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
FINSBURY, a borough, a division, and a sub-district, in Middlesex. The borough is an integral part of the metropolis; lies between the Tower Hamlets and Marylebone.

One of the oldest of the smaller district churches within the borough and civil parish of St Luke Old Street Finsbury, St Paul's Bunhill Row was established in the year 1839. It lays within the boundaries of St Luke Old Street.

Additionally, there was another St Paul, called St Paul Pear Tree which was likewise a district church built to ease the population increases in the borough of St Luke's, established and in operation by the year 1865.

For a list of all churches and chapels of the Church of England within the civil parish of Finsbury, see St Luke's Old Street (Finsbury).

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Websites
Finsbury on GENUKI