Staple Inn, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Holborn (St Andrew above the Bars), parish, Middlesex, in Finsbury parliamentary borough.

Staple's Inn, Holborn, is three houses on the south side, going from Middle Row towards Farringdon Street. It is an inn of Chancery, and an appendage as an inn of court to Gray's Inn. This inn is said to have been anciently a hall for the accommodation of wool staplers, whence it derived its name; but it was an inn of Chancery before 1415, and in 1529 the benchers of Gray's Inn purchased it for its present purpose.

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
Staple Inn 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.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * Staple's Inn 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.

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
Staple Inn in Holborn on GENUKI