South Hackney St John of Jerusalem, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to South Hackney St John of Jerusalem, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HACKNEY, a parish, forming a union with Stoke Newington, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2 miles NE from London. Hackney formerly constituted one parish, under the designation of St. John's, consisting of a vicarage and a sinecure rectory. The church of St. John the Baptist, now the church of the central district, or Hackney proper, was erected under an act of parliament obtained in 1791. A church, dedicated to St. Peter, was lately erected and endowed in the parish. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians.

Additional information:

St. John of Jerusalem Lauriston Road was a chapel of ease, built by about 1826, which became the church of South Hackney. This chapel lay within the ancient and civil parish boundaries of Hackney St John. See also Hackney St John Parish.

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
South Hackney St John of Jerusalem 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
Hackney on GENUKI