St Michael Wood Street with St Mary Staining, London Genealogy

London St Michael Wood Street with St Mary Staining ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
"St Michael Wood Street with St Mary Staining, the church of, is situated on the west side of Wood Street, Cheapside. The original church is of some antiquity, [as early as]...1328. The old church was destoryed by the common conflagration of 1666, and the present church was erected a few years after from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. The neighbouring church of St Mary Staining was also destroyed at the same time, and the parish was united to this act of parliament. The patronage of this rectory was anciently in the abbot and convent of St Albans, till the suppression of the religious houses by Henry VIII, who sold it to WIlliam Barwell, who in 1558 conveyed it to the trustees for the parishioners, in which it still remains. After the fire of London, the adjacent parish of St Mary Staining was united to it by act of parliament; the patronage of which devolving to the crown after the Reformation, it is now in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and the united rectory is presented to alternately by his Lordship and the parishioners. The united parishes are now a rectory in the city, diocese and archdeaconry of London, and in before mentioned patronage."

After the Great Fire of London (1666), St Mary Staining Parish united with St Michael Wood Street Parish.

 

1848 parish description St. Michael, Wood-street with St. Mary Staining are parishes, of the city of London Within the Walls. The patron is the Crown, and the Parishioners, alternately. They are parishes within the poor-law union of the City of London. Part of Aldersgate Ward.

Both churches have been demolished.

Church records
St Mary Staining parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

St Michael Wood Street parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

"Christenings 1663-c1895, Marriages 1674-1754, 1813-1895, Burials 1813-c1853 destroyed by enemy action, 1940, but see coverage of marriages in Boyd and Pallot indexes." Bishop's transcripts for eighteenth-century christenings have also been lost.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Aldersgate Ward - Seynt Mary Stayneing Parysheat British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Cripplegate Ward - Seynt Myghelles in Woodstreteat British History Online

1547 Subsidy

 * St Mary Staining, Aldersgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/137); copy:.
 * St Michael, Wood Street, Cripplegate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/142); copy:.

1564 Subsidy

 * St Mary Staining, Aldersgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/224); copy:.

1576 Subsidy

 * 1576 London Subsidy Roll, St Michaell{es} p{ar}ishe and Adhuc St Michaell{es} p{ar}ishe at Alan H. Nelson website

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Aldersgate Ward - St Marye Stayninges Parishat British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Cripplegate Ward - St Michaells Parisheat British History Online

1625 Subsidy

 * St Mary Staining, Aldersgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/510); copy:.

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St. Mary Steiningsat British History Online

1645 Subsidy

 * St Michael, Wood Street, Cripplegate Ward Within, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/590 Part 5); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Michael Wood Streetat British History Online

1667 Hearth Tax

 * St Mary Staining, Aldersgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/630); copy:.
 * St Michael, Wood Street, Cripplegate Within Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/630); copy:.

(St Michael Wood Street residents)

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
Before 1858, fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London. St Mary Staining also fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Archdeaconry of London. In practice, many St Mary Staining 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 names of the courts having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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

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

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Mary Staining Parish records)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Michael Wood Street Parish records)
 * (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Michael Wood Street' or 'London St Mary Staining')