Westminster St Matthew, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Westminster St Matthew. In about 1730 the parishes of St. George-in-the-East, St. Anne (Limehouse), and St. Matthew (Bethnal Green), were separated from Stepney.

Additional information:

St Matthew Westminster is a chapel of ease built in the year 1851. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Margaret Westminster.

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
Westminster St Matthew 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.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1841-1964 Westminster, London, England, Non-Conformist Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1841-1964 at Ancestry ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)

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.

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
Westminster St Matthew in St Martin in the Fields on GENUKI