Homerton, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HOMERTON, a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry, in Hackney parish, Middlesex. The suburb lies on the N London Railway, near Victoria Park and Hackney stations, 3 ¼ miles NE of St. Paul's; has a post office under London NE, and a railway station; and consists largely of suburban residences of city merchants and opulent tradesmen. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Population in 1861, 8,663. Houses, 1,306. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of London.

Ram's proprietary chapel [which was founded 1723 and pulled down in 1846] is here, and is in the patronage of Trustees. Three dissenting chapels, and Robinson's alms houses for 12 ministers' widows, also are here. An Independents theological college was founded here soon after the Revolution; was rebuilt in 1823; had then an income of £2,033; and was consolidated, in 1850, with Coward and Highbury colleges into the New college, St. John's Wood.

St Barnabas Homerton High Street, was created in the year 1846 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of St John Hackney.

See A Comprehensive List of Hackney District Churches in Pre-1900.

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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
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Church of England
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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.

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Websites
Homerton in Hackney on GENUKI