St Sepulchre, Middlesex Genealogy

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London St Sepulchre family history and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers (baptisms, christenings, marriages, and burials), civil registration (births, marriages, and deaths), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and website resources.



Church records
Most St Sepulchre parish registers burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Boundary
To find the names of the neighbouring 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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Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Within - The Parish of Seynt Sepulcre for the Parte Within Newgate, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Without - Saynt Sepulcres Paryssh, courtesy: British History Online

1547 Subsidy



 * St Sepulchre, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/145); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Without - St Sepulcers Parishe, courtesy: British History Online

1622 Subsidy

 * St Sepulchre, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/505); copy:.

1625 Subsidy

 * St Sepulchre, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/515); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Sepulchre Holborn, courtesy: British History Online

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Sepulchre (part) at British History Online - free.

1801 Census
The 1801 Census exists.

1811 Census
The 1811 Census exists.

1821 Census
The 1821 Census exists.

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. 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.

Cemetery


Find A Grave has created a page on St Sepulchre without Newgate Churchyard (10+ entries).

Records of the Poor

 * St Sepulchre Poor Law Records 1765-1844, courtesy: British Origins ($)

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

Parish History
Authorities consider St Sepulchre Parish a part of the City of London as well as a part of Middlesex, even though it was not technically within the Walls of London.

"St Sepulchre, the church of, is situated on Snow Hill, at the corner of Giltspur Street, and is so named in commemoration of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. This church is supposed to have been founded about 1100, at which time a particular devotion was paid to the Holy Sepulchre. It was decayed in the reign of Edward IV as to require rebuilding. In the reign of Henry I, it was given by the Bishop of Salisbury to the Prior and Canons of St Bartholomew, in Smithfield. At the dissolution of that ministry it came to the crown till it was granted by James I to Francis Phipps and others. After which the rectory,...was purchased by the parishioners, and the advowson of the vicarage, by the President and Fellows of St John's College, Oxford. The church was much damaged by the great fire of 1666, when it was repaired... It is a vicarage in the city, archdeaconry and diocese of London, and in the patronage of St John's College, Oxford."

This parish belonged to Farringdon Without Ward.

Also known as St Sepulchre Newgate Parish.

St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate is the largest parish church in the City of London with an important history dating back to 1137. The church is built on the site of an early Saxon church. Originally named St. Edmund, the name was expanded to St. Edmund and the Holy Sepulchre in the 12th Century while under the control of Augustinian Canons – or Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. As time passed the church became known as ‘St Sepulchre’. Its official name includes the ‘without-Newgate’ suffix as it was located just outside the New Gate of the Roman Wall surrounding the City.

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

Web sites

 * St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate (official website). History, photographs, visitor directions.
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue
 * (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Sepulchre')