Shoreditch St Leonard, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Here's a List of District Churches and Chapels Within St Leonard's Shoreditch Parish.

Parish History
SHOREDITCH (St. Leonard), a parish, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex; forming a north-eastern portion of the metropolis, and, with Haggerston and Hoxton There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyan and other Methodists.

Additional information:

This parish was subdivided into numerous chapelries and district churches by 1900. Be sure to see the above link to a "List of District Churches and Chapels Within St Leonard's Shoreditch Parish" for a more complete picture as to Shoreditch's ecclesiastical makeup.

Sir Henry Ellis's 1798 history of Shoreditch Parish has been digitized.

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
Shoreditch St Leonard 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.

1600 Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Shordiche (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: St Leonard Shoreditch at British History Online - free.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Leonard Shoreditch at British History Online - free.

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.

Cemetery
A 1922 survey of monuments within the church and in the churchyard is available online.

Poor Law Unions
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

Baptisms of St Leonard Workhouse from 1835 to 1861 are indexed at FamilySearch in Batch

Baptisms of Shoreditch Workhouse from 1836 to 1873 are indexed at FamilySearch in Batch

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Shoreditch on GENUKI