St Olave Hart Street, London Genealogy

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London St Olave Hart Street 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.

Timeline

 * 1200s - first mentioned
 * ~1450 - present church building built
 * 1941 - church bombed during London Blitz
 * 1954 - church restored

1831 description
"St Olave Hart Street, the church of, is situated on the south side of Hart Street, Crutched Friars and derives its name and addition from being dedicated to St Olave or Olaus, King of Norway, who, from his strong attachment to the christian religion, took part with the Christian English, against the pagan Danes. A church stood on this site, dedicated to the same patron, before the year 1319, The present church."

1848 description

St. Olave Hart-street, withSt. Martin, Ironmonger-lane, are pare parishes of the city of London Within the Walls. The patron is the Parishioners. They are parishes within the poor-law union of the City of London.

Additional jurisdictions
St Olave Hart Street Parish was part of Tower Ward and Aldgate Ward.

Published histories
A history was published in 1894:


 * Povah, Alfred. The Annals of the Parishes of St. Olave, Hart Street, and Allhallows Staining, in the City of London. Blades East &amp; Blades, 1894. Digitized by Internet Archive.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Aldgate Ward - The Parisshe of Saynt Olave, courtesy: British History Online

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Aldgate Ward - Saint Olave Parishe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Bridge Ward - St Olaves Parishe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Tower Ward - St Olaves Parish, courtesy: British History Online

1621 Subsidy

 * St Olave, Hart Street, Tower Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/501); copy:.



1625 Subsidy

 * St Olave, Hart Street, Aldgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/549); copy:.

1645 Subsidy

 * St Olave Hart Street, Aldgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/616); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Olave Hart Street, courtesy: British History Online

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

Before 1858, 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 names of the courts having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Cemetery


A survey of monumental brasses, published 1891, is available online.

A cemetery survey, published in 1894, is available online.

Websites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue
 * St Olave's and St Katharine Cree (official website). Photographs, history, visitor directions.
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