Haggerston St Augustine, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HAGGERSTON(E) a quondam hamlet, eight chapelries, and two sub-districts, in Shoreditch parish and district, Middlesex. The hamlet forms part of the metropolis; lies on the Regent's canal, 2 miles NE of St. Pauls; is within the London NE postal district, which has receiving houses in Shoreditch; and contains nine churches, Independent, Wesleyan and other dissenting chapels; the Goldsmiths' almshouses, founded in 1705; the Ironmongers' alms houses, with a chapel; the Drapers' and the Framework knitters' alms houses; and the Shoreditch workhouse.

St Augustine Haggerston was a district church created by the year 1863 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 Augustine 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.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain