Tottenham All Hallows, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Tottenham All Hallows, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
TOTTENHAM, a parish, which is also a sub-district, in Edmonton district, Middlesex; averagely 5½ miles N by E of St. Paul's, London. There are eleven chapels for dissenters and 1 for Roman Catholics.[1]

All Hallows is an Anglican church in Tottenham, North London. It is one of the oldest buildings in the London Borough of Haringey,[1] being built as All Saints Church in the 12th century. It was re-dedicated as All Hallows in the 15th century,[2] standing adjacent to Bruce Castle and Tottenham Cemetery.[2]

A smaller chapel subdividing All Hallows boundaries was consecrated at Wood Green in October 1844 [see additional churches added within these boundaries, below]; it is in the early English style. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans and Roman Catholics.

The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the County of Middlesex.

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The name by which it is known and dedicated today is: All Hallows.

Here's a list of the other chapels lying within the parish boundary of Tottenham All Hallows:
 * Holy Trinity, High Cross - 1828
 * St Paul, Park Lane - 1859
 * St Ann, Stamford Hill - 1861
 * St Michael, Wood Green - 1865
 * St Johns Mission Church, Wood Green - 1866
 * St Mary the Virgin, Lansdowne Rd - 1882
 * St Peter, Page Green - 1883
 * St Mark, Noel Park, Wood Green - 1885
 * St John the Divine, Vartry Road, Stamford Hill - 1886
 * Christ Church, West Green - 1889
 * St Bartholomew Stamford Hill - 1895
 * St Philip the Apostle - 1898
 * St Cuthbert, Wood Green - 1902
 * St Luke, Tottenham - 1905
 * St Gabriel, Bounds Green St John, Brook Road - 1906
 * St Patrick's Mission - 1909
 * St Andrew's Mission - 1910
 * St Benet Fink, Walpole Rd - 1912

TOTTENHAM [All Hallows], a parish, [by 1557] in the union and hundred of Edmonton, County of Middlesex, 4 miles north and east of London. A district church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in the later English style, with turrets at each angle, and pinnacles over the aisles, was erected in 1829 on Tottenham Green... Today it lies within the London Borough of Haringey.

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
Tottenham All Hallows 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.

Cemetery Records
All Hallows; Monumental Inscriptions: Courtesy of Michael Bruff

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Tottenham at British History Online - free.

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.

Manorial Records
Records survive for six manors in Tottenham Parish: Balliol's Manor (1319-1442), Bruce's Manor (1319-1418), Hasting's Manor (1369-1900), Mocking's Manor (1421-1443), Tottenham Manor (1308-1908), and Tottenham Rectory Manor (1525-1869). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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
Tottenham on GENUKI