Whitechapel St Paul, Dock Street, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
St Paul Dock Street, Whitechapel was one of numerous chapels of ease which were built in the early to late 19th century to handle the exponential population growth in this parish. It was created in 1847, taken partly from the parish of St John's Wapping and St Botolph Aldgate. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary Whitechapel. The places of worship, in 1851, were 11 of the Church of England, with 10,368 sittings; five of Independents, with 2,775 sittings; five of Baptists, with 3,350 sittings; one of Wesleyans, with 1,197 sittings; one of Wesleyan Reformers, with 160 attendants; one of Lutherans, with 602 sittings; one of German Protestants, with 200 sittings; one undefined, with 120 sittings; one of the Catholic and Apostolic church, with 700 sittings; one of Latter Day Saints, with 168 sittings and one of Roman Catholics, with 223 sittings.

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
Whitechapel St Paul, Dock Street 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.

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
Whitechapel on GENUKI