Charterhouse St Thomas, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Charterhouse St Thomas, was instituted a chapelry in 1843 and lies within the civil parish and metropolitan borough of Holborn St Andrew. Was later united to St Charterhouse St Mary in 1906 due to the fall in population.

1848 description:

The Charter-House, which comprises an hospital as well as a school. A district church, dedicated to St. Thomas, has been erected on part of the land; the patronage is vested in the Bishop 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
Charterhouse St Thomas 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.

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.

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

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