Stoke Newington St Mary, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
NEWINGTON, STOKE St. Mary, a parish, in the union of Hackney, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, County of Middlesex, 3 miles north and east of London. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, and Unitarians. Abney Park public cemetery is also found in this parish with a chapel.

STOKE-NEWINGTON, a metropolitan suburb and a parish in Middlesex. The parish is a sub-district of Hackney district. There are several dissenting chapels.

The "Victoria County History" of Stoke Newington (1985) is available online. It includes chapters on manors, estates, economic history, local government, churches, Roman Catholicism, Protestant nonconformity, Judaism, education, and charities for the poor.

St Mary Newington is an ancient parish created approximately in the year 1561.

The Abney Park Trust has created a Surname Database of those buried here.

William Robinson, "The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Stoke Newington in the County of Middlesex".

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

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

 * 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.

Manorial Records

 * Records survive for Stoke Newington Manor (1329-1900). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Stoke Newington on GENUKI