Enfield St James, Middlesex Genealogy

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Parish History
Enfield St James was a district church built as a chapel of ease for St Andrew Enfield--the ancient parish church, and established by the year 1832. ¹

A district church, dedicated to St. James, [was] erected on Enfield Highway, in the division of Green-Street and Ponder's End; it is a handsome structure in the early English style, with a square embattled tower ornamented by pinnacles at the angles. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £150; patron, the Vicar of Enfield. ²

1. From: Guide to Ancestral research in London published 1987.

2. From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 173-177. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50948 Date accessed: 21 April 2010.

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Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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