Holborn St Andrew, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
"Holborn St Andrews, the church of, stands at the northwest corner of Holborn hill and Shoe Lane, and is dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle, who is distinguished in church history as the earliest of the apostles and as having suffered martyrdom in Achaia. There was a church on this site as early as the year 1297, which escaped the fire of 1666, but ten years after, being found too ruinous for reparation, it was taken down, except the tower, in 1686, and the present church erected in its place by Sir Christopher Wren. It is one of the finest and most appropriate Protestant churches in Europe. Its exterior is plain, simple and unpretending; consisting of a basement under the galleries, with low windows which light the aisles, and an upper story semicircular headed windows for the galleries and nave; crowned by a well proportioned cornice, blocking course and balustrade. The tower, which is the ancient one, nearly faced with Portland stone ashlering in 1704, is square and to taste. The interior is spacious, rich and beautiful, consisting of a nave and two aisles, divided in height into a ground story and galleries. The living is a rectory worth £600 a year. The patronage was originally in the gift of the Dean and Cannons of St Paul's, who transferred it to the Abbot and Convent of Bermondsey, who continued to be its patrons till their dissolution by Henry VIII, when that monarch granted it to Thomas, Lord Wriothesley, afterwards Earl of Southampton, from whom it descended, by marriage, to the late Duke of Montague."

This parish belonged to Farringdon Ward Without.

1848 description 

St. Andrew Holborn is a parish, in the City of London Without the Walls. The patron is, the Duke of Buccleuch.

Church Records
A page from the parish register is missing for the year 1717.

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.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Without - Saynt Andrewes Paryssheat British History Online

1547 Subsidy

 * St Andrew, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/145); copy:.

1564 Subsidy

 * St Andrew, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/218), Copy:.

1577 Subsidy

 * 1576 London Subsidy Roll, St Andrewes in Holborne at Alan H. Nelson website (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252)
 * St Andrew, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Without - St Andrewes Parishe in Holborneat British History Online

1589 Subsidy

 * FamilySearch Digital Library has the London Subsidy Roll, c.1589 - St Andrewes in Holborne Parisheat Family History Archives (see page 160)

1600 Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Higheholborne, Higheholborne adhuc, Holborne Ende (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1622 Subsidy

 * St Andrew, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/505); copy:.

1625 Subsidy

 * St Andrew, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/515); copy:.

1645 Subsidy

 * St Andrew, Holborn, Farringdon Ward Without, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/590 Part 11); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Andrew Holbornat British History Online - free.
 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666 - St Andrew Holborn at British History Online - free.

1667 Hearth Tax

 * St Andrew Holborn, Farringdon Ward Without, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/630); copy:.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Andrew Holborn at British History Online - free.

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.

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

Before 1858, 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 name of the court having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Unions

 * St Andrew Holborn Apprenticeship Papers (boys), 1804-1844at Ancestry (£)

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

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

 * Holborn St Andrew on GENUKI
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue
 * St Andrew Holborn (official website). Photographs, history, visitor directions.