St Mary Somerset with St Mary Mounthaw, London Genealogy

London St Mary Somerset with St Mary Mounthaw ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
"St Mary Somerset with St Mary Mounthaw, the church of, is situated on the north side of Upper Thames Street, opposite Broken Wharf, and derives its addition, ...from its contiguity to a small hithe or haven, called Sumner's het, or hithe, since corrupted to Somerset. It appears from ancient records that a church stood on this site before the year 1335, but sharing the fate of most of the other buildings, in the fire of London, the present church was erected in its stead by Sir Christopher Wren, and finished in 1695. After the fire of London, the parish of St Mary Mounthaw was united to this parish by act of parliament.

"St Mary Mounthaw, the church of was situated on the anciently on the west side of Fish Street Hill, near Queenhithe, and received its name from its dedication to the Virgin Mary, and the family of Montalto, or Monthaut, in the county of Norfolk, who were its original founders and patrons. It was destroyed by the fire of London, and not rebuilt, but the parish was united to that of St Mary Somerset, by act of Parliament."

St Mary Somerset Parish was part of Queenhithe Ward. Only the tower of St Mary Somerset survives today.

After the Great Fire of London (1666), St Mary Mounthaw Parish united with St Mary Somerset Parish.

1848 parish description

St. Mary Somerset, with St. Mary Mounthaw, are parishes of the city of London Within the Walls. The patron is the Bishops of London and Hereford, alternately. They are parishes within the poor-law union of the City of London.

The Church of St Mary Mounthaw Parish has been demolished.

Church records
Historically, St. Mary Somerset and St. Mary Mounthaw were two separate parishes. Each maintained individual parish registers.

St Mary Mounthaw Parish


Publications of the Harleian Society Parish Register Series published parish registers from 1568 to 1849.

St Mary Somerset Parish


Publications of the Harleian Society Parish Register Series published parish registers from 1558 to 1837 (burials to 1853).

1547 Subsidy

 * St Mary Somerset, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/152); copy:.

1564 Subsidy

 * St Mary Somerset, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/220); copy:.
 * St Nicholas Cole Abbey, St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, and St Mary Mounthaw, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/220); copy:.

1577 Subsidy

 * 1576 London Subsidy Roll, St Marie Som{er}sett{es} p{ar}ishe, St Nich{ol}as Coldabye Mary Magdalyn and Mary Mountall at Alan H. Nelson website (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252)
 * St Mary Somerset, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252); copy:.
 * St Nicholas Cole Abbey, St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, and St Mary Mounthaw, Queenhithe Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Queenhithe Ward - Sct Mary Somersettes Parocheat British History Online

1638 Inhabitants List

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

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

Before 1858, St Mary Somerset with St Mary Mounthaw fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Archdeaconry of London. In practice, many 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 name of the court having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Cemetery



 * . These flat gravestones were removed from the interior of the demolished church.

Records of the Poor
During the seventeenth century, officials gave some foundlings discovered in St Mary Mounthaw Parish the unique surname Mounthaw.

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 Mounthaw Parish records)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St. Mary Somerset Parish records)
 * Sketch of St. Mary Somerset Parish Churchat London Ancestor
 * (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Mary Somerset' or 'London St Mary Mounthaw')