St Barnabas in St Marylebone, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
MARYLEBONE, a parish, a district, and a borough, in Middlesex. The parish forms a compact portion of the metropolis; lies on the Regents canal, the Northwestern railway, and the Metropolitan railway, 3 miles NW by W of St. Paul's; is bounded, on the N by Primrose Hill and Queens Road; on the E by Cleveland Street and part of Regents Park; on the S by Oxford Street; on the W by Edgware Road; includes the suburbs of St. John's Wood and Portland Town; and has several stations on the railways, and numerous post offices and postal pillar boxes under London W and London NW.

The parish comprises nine chapelries: Parish chapel, St. John's-Park-road, St. James', Portman chapel, Brunswick Chapel, Quebec Chapel, St. Peter's under All Souls, St. Paul's under All Souls, and Christ Chapel-St. John's Wood.

Patron of St. Marylebone, All Souls, Christchurch, Trinity, St. Mary Bryanston Square, St. John's Park Road, St. James', St. Thomas Portman Square, St. Peter under All Souls, St. Paul under All Souls, St. Barnabas, St. Mark, and Brunswick Chapel: the Crown;

Patron of Parish chapel: the Rector of St. Marylebone;

Patron of St. Luke: the Rector of St. Mary Bryanston Square;

Patron of Portman Chapel: Proprietors;

Patron of St. Paul Lisson Grove, St. Matthew Maida-hill, Quebec-chapel, and Christ-chapel-St. John's Wood: Trustees;

Patron of All Saints Margaret Street and St. Stephen's Portland Town: the Bishop of London;

Patron of St. Andrew's: alternately the Crown and the Bishop;

Patron of All Saints St. John's Wood: Col. Eyre.

The places of worship within the parish, in 1851, were 20 of the Church of England, 1 of English Presbyterians, 1 of United Presbyterians, 6 of Independents, 5 of Baptists, 1 of Unitarians, 4 of Wesleyan Methodists, 1 of Primitive Methodists, 2 of the Wesleyan Association, 1 of Calvinistic Methodists, 1 undefined, 1 of the Catholic and Apostolic church, 3 of Roman Catholics, 1 of the Greek church, and 1 of Jews'''.

Additional information:

St Barnabas, Bell Street was built in 1866 and resided within the civil parish boundaries of St Marylebone.

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
St Barnabas in St Marylebone 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
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Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

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