Stamford Hill St John, Vartry Road, Middlesex Genealogy

England Middlesex  Middlesex Parishes

Parish History
HACKNEY, a parish, forming a union with StokeNewington, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2 miles (N. E.) from London; comprising four districts, viz., Hackney St. John with Lower Clapton, South Hackney, West Hackney, and Stamford-Hill, with Upper Clapton, Hackney formerly constituted one parish, under the designation of St. John's, consisting of a vicarage and a sinecure rectory. The church of St. John the Baptist, now the church of the central district, or Hackney proper, was erected under an act of parliament obtained in 1791, A sub-district has been apportioned from the district of Hackney proper, to Stamford-Hill chapel. A church, dedicated to St. Peter, was lately erected and endowed in the parish. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians. Among the ministers of the Independent congregation in St. Thomas's square.

Additional information:

St John Vartry Road, Stamford Hill, built in the year 1887, was a district church or a church built to ease the demands of the increase of population within the civil parish of All Hallows Tottenham.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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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.

Poor Law Unions
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