St Sepulchre, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
St. Sepulchre is a parish, in the City of London Without the Walls. The patron is St. John’s College, Oxford. Impropriators of two thirds of the rectorial tithes; the Parishioners, the Vicarage being endowed with one-third. A part of St. Sepulchre is in the West London union.

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, also known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Holborn), is an Anglican church in the City of London. It is located on Holborn Viaduct, almost opposite the Old Bailey. In medieval times it stood just outside ("without") the now-demolished old city wall, near the Newgate. It has been a living of St John's College, Oxford, since 1622.

Authorities consider St Sepulchre Parish a part of the City of London as well as a part of Middlesex, even though it was not technically within the Walls of London.

"St Sepulchre, the church of, is situated on Snow Hill, at the corner of Giltspur Street, and is so named in commemoration of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. This church is supposed to have been founded about 1100, at which time a particular devotion was paid to the Holy Sepulchre. It was decayed in the reign of Edward IV as to require rebuilding. In the reign of Henry I, it was given by the Bishop of Salisbury to the Prior and Canons of St Bartholomew, in Smithfield. At the dissolution of that ministry it came to the crown till it was granted by James I to Francis Phipps and others. After which the rectory,...was purchased by the parishioners, and the advowson of the vicarage, by the President and Fellows of St John's College, Oxford. The church was much damaged by the great fire of 1666, when it was repaired... It is a vicarage in the city, archdeaconry and diocese of London, and in the patronage of St John's College, Oxford."

This parish belonged to Farringdon Without Ward.

Also known as St Sepulchre Newgate Parish.

Church records
Most St Sepulchre parish registers burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Within - The Parish of Seynt Sepulcre for the Parte Within Newgateat British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Without - Saynt Sepulcres Parysshat British History Online

1547 Subsidy



 * St Sepulchre, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/145); copy:.

1564 Subsidy

 * St Sepulchre, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/218), Copy:.

1577 Subsidy

 * 1576 London Subsidy Roll, St Sepulchers p{ar}ishe at Alan H. Nelson website. (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252) Includes occupations.
 * St Sepulchre, Holborn (includes Holborn Cross Quarter, Church Quarter, Old Bailey Quarter, Smithfield Quarter, Holborn Cross Quarter, Church Quarter, and Old Bailey Quarter [again]), Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Without - St Sepulcers Parisheat British History Online

1600 Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: St Iohnstreete and St Iohnstreete adhuc (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1622 Subsidy

 * St Sepulchre, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/505); copy:.

1625 Subsidy

 * St Sepulchre, Holborn, Farringdon Without Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/515); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Sepulchre Holbornat British History Online

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Sepulchre (part) at British History Online - free.

1801 Census
The 1801 Census exists and is held at The British Library.

1811 Census
The 1811 Census exists and is held at The British Library.

1821 Census
The 1821 Census exists and is held at The British Library.

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.

Probate records
Before 1858, St Sepulchre fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London. 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.

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

Cemetery







 * Find A Grave has created a page on St Sepulchre without Newgate Churchyard (10+ entries).

Poor Law Union Records

 * St Sepulchre Poor Law Records 1765-1844at British Origins (£)

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

 * St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate (official website). History, photographs, visitor directions.
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue
 * (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London St Sepulchre')