St Botolph Without Aldgate with Holy Trinity Minories, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to St Botolph Without Aldgate with Holy Trinity Minorities, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Holy Trinity Minories Timeline

 * 1600s - church fell into disrepair
 * 1706 - church rebuilt
 * 1899 - united with St Botolph Without Aldgate Parish
 * 1940 - church bombed and destroyed

St Botolph Without Aldgate Timeline

 * 1115 - first mentioned
 * 1500s - church rebuilt
 * 1741-1744 - church again rebuilt
 * 1899 - united with Holy Trinity Minories Parish
 * 1940s - church bombed in WWII, restored
 * 1965 - a fire damaged the church, restored

1831 descriptions
"St Botolph, without Aldgate, the church of, is situated at the south-east corners of Houndsditch, and nearly opposite the Minories, in Aldgate High Street. It is one of the four churches in London dedicated by our ancestors to their favourite saint, Botolph the Briton. The old church, which was rebuilt by the prior and canons of the Holy Trinity, a short time before the dissolution of that convent, escaped the fire in 1666; bit it had become so ruinous in 1741, that it was taken down and the present edifice finished in 1744. It is built principally with brick, and is a plain, bold and massive structure, consisting of a regular formed body and a lofty spire on a rusticated tower. This church was a rectory of very ancient foundation, ...It is now a perpetual curacy..."

''Holy Trinity Minories, the church of, it is situated in the Little Minories. It stands on part of the ancient convent of the nuns of St. Clare called the Minoresses, that was founded in 1239 by Edmund Earl of Lancaster, brother of Edward I. This being suppressed, in 1539 a number of houses were erected on its site, and a small church was built for the inhabitants, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, whence it derived its name, it's addition from this situation. This church was rebuilt in a plain substantial manner, in 1706, and is the family burial place of the Legges, Earls of Dartmouth, to one of those ancestors, a house called the Kings, was granted by Charles II. The curators parish for it is neither arbitrary nor vicarage, holds the living by an instrument of donation under the great seal of England. It is in the city, diocese and Archdeaconry of London..." ''

1848 parish description
St. Botolph, Aldgate, is a parish in the City of London Without the Walls. The patron is R. Kynaston, Esq., the Improptriator. Trinity in the Minories is a parish, in the City of London Without the Walls. The patron is the Crown.

Additional jurisdictions
St Botolph without Aldgate belonged to Aldgate Ward.

Holy Trinity Minories Parish
Holy Trinity Minories marriage registers have been published for the period 1676 to 1754 by the East of London Family History Society.

St Botolph without Aldgate Parish
Parish Clerks' Memorandum Books 1583-1625 at Rescript.

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.

1547 Subsidy



 * Holy Trinity Minories, Houndsditch, Portsoken Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/148); copy:.

1564 Subsidy

 * Holy Trinity Minories, precinct beneath, within London and Houndsditch, Portsoken Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/220); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Portsoken Ward - The Mynoryesat British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Portsoken Ward - St Buttolphes Parocheat British History Online

1596 Subsidy

 * S. Botolph without Aldgate & Minories (The National Archives, Ref: E179/146/410); transcript by Charles Edward Banks:.

1625 Subsidies

 * St Botolph without Aldgate, Portsoken Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/514); copy:.
 * St Botolph without Aldgate, Portsoken Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/544); copy:.

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Botolph, Aldgateat British History Online

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Botolph Aldgateat British History Online - free.
 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666 - St Botolph Aldgate at British History Online - free.

1690-1698 Poll Tax Assessments

 * St Botolph Aldgate Poll Tax Assessments, 1690-98at London Lives.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Botolph Aldgate at British History Online - free.

1695 Marriage Duty Act Tax

 * London Marriage Duty Assessment 1695 - St Botolph Aldgateat British History Online
 * St Botolph Aldgate Poll Tax Assessments, 1690-98at London Lives.

1744-1825 Land Tax Assessments
Holy Trinity Minories land tax assessments (1744-1825) have been microfilmed:.

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.

Over the years, St Botolph Aldgate has belonged to several civil registration districts:

There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

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

Before 1858, St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Archdeaconry of London. In practice, many residents left their wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury from the 1700s through 1858. 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.

Officials ascribed mariners who died abroad the residence of St Botolph without Aldgate in their wills.

Cemetery


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

Find A Grave has created a page on St Botolph Without Aldgate's Churchyard (40+ entries).

Records of the Poor

 * St Botolph Aldgate Parish Account Books, Pauper Payments, Pauper Examinations, Apprenticeship Records, Pauper Lists, Minute Books, Vestry Minutes, Pauper Apprentices, Poor Children Registers and Workhouse Admission Records (1600s-1800s)at London Lives
 * St Botolph Aldgate Poor Law Records 1742-1868at British Origins (£). Also available in book form:.

During the seventeenth century, officials gave some foundlings discovered in Holy Trinity Minories Parish the unique surname Minories.

Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * St Botolph without Aldgate (official website). Family history tips, virtual tour, history, visitor instructions.
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Botolph Aldgate)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (Holy Trinity Minories)
 * (to narrow results, conduct subject searches for 'London St Botolph without Aldgate' or 'London Holy Trinity Minories')
 * St Botolph Without Aldgate on GENUKI