St Mildred Bread Street with St Margaret Moses, London Genealogy

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Parish History
St Mildred Bread Street with St Margaret Moses, the church of, stands on the east side of Bread Street and is so called from its situation from being dedicated to Mildred, a saint, daughter of Merwaldus, and to Penda, King of Mercians, who consecrated abbess of a monastery in the Isle of Thanet... It is a rectory, founded and built by Lord Trenchant, of St Alban's, about the year 1300, and enlarged in 1428,... [with a] vestry room, and church yard, to the parishioners, and a parsonage house to the rector. The old church was burned down in 1666, and rebuilt in 1683, by Sir Christopher Wren. The advowson of this church was anciently in the Prior and Canons of St Mary Overy, but it afterwards came into the family of Sir Nicholas Crispe and is now in private hands. After the fire of London, the parish of St Margaret Moses (see that church), was united to it by act of parliament; which church, after many changes from 1105,...till the suppression of that convent, by Edward III, as an  alien Priory, fell to the crown, in whose patronage it has continued to this day.

These united parishes are a rectory, in the city, diocese and archdeaconry of London...

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
St Mildred Bread Street and St Margaret Moses were originally two parishes. Each maintained separate parish registers.

St Mildred Bread Street Parish
Most St Mildred Bread Street parish registers burned in the Great Fire of London (1666).

Boundary
To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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Census records

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Margaret Moses, Friday Street, courtesy: British History Online.
 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St. Mildred, Bread Street, courtesy: British History Online.

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

Before 1858, St Mildred Bread Street Parish fell under the jurisdiction of the Commissary Court of London and St Margaret Moses Parish fell under the Archdeaconry Court of London.

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.

Poor Law Unions
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Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Margaret Moses Parish)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Mildred Bread Street Parish)
 * Sketch of St Mildred, Bread Street Church, courtesy: London Ancestor
 * Society of Genealogists Library Catalogue (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Mildred Bread Street' or 'London St Margaret Moses')
 * (St Margaret Moses Parish)