Queen Charlotte's Hospital Marylebone Rd, Hammersmith, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Queen Charlotte's Hospital Marylebone Rd, Hammersmith, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HAMMERSMITH (St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Kensington, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 3½ miles (W. by S.) from London; Here are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans.

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A chapel was built as part of the Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Marylebone Road, Hammersmith, and was opened in 1739. Many births and baptisms occurred within its walls during its operation. It was one of four lying-in hospitals established in Greater London in the mid-18th century. This hospital was principally intended for the "wives of poor industrious Tradesmen or distressed House-keepers" and the wives of soldiers and sailors. Queen Charlotte's Hospital admitted both single and married women. It was reorganised in 1809 and renamed in the honour of Queen Charlotte. It moved to Marylebone Road in 1813 and Goldhawke Road in 1940. Records are deposited in the LMA include patients' registers 1809-1949. For baptism registers 1881-1927 see the parish registers of St Mark, Old Marylebone Road held in the LMA.

London Metropolitan Archives. “Information Leaflet No 15, Records of Patients in London Hospitals.” (London: London Metropolitan Archives, 2000).

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
Queen Charlotte's Hospital Marylebone Rd, Hammersmith 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.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
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