Whitechapel St Paul, Dock Street, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
St Paul Dock Street, Whitechapel was one of numerous chapels of ease which were built in the early to late 19th century to handle the exponential population growth in this parish. It was created in 1847, taken partly from the parish of St John's Wapping and St Botolph Aldgate. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary Whitechapel. The places of worship, in 1851, were 11 of the Church of England, with 10,368 sittings; five of Independents, with 2,775 sittings; five of Baptists, with 3,350 sittings; one of Wesleyans, with 1,197 sittings; one of Wesleyan Reformers, with 160 attendants; one of Lutherans, with 602 sittings; one of German Protestants, with 200 sittings; one undefined, with 120 sittings; one of the Catholic and Apostolic church, with 700 sittings; one of Latter Day Saints, with 168 sittings and one of Roman Catholics, with 223 sittings.

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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
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * 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
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Whitechapel on GENUKI