St George in the East Christ Church, Middlesex Genealogy

England Middlesex Middlesex Parishes

Guide to St George in the East Christ Church, Middlesex family history and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
St George in the East is an Anglican Church and one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, England. It was built from 1714 to 1729,with funding from the 1711 Act of Parliament. The name of the church was also the parish for the surrounding area, until subsumed into Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and abolished in 1927.

Additional information:

Christ Church, lying in St. George's-in-the-East Parish, was built as a chapel of ease in the year 1841.

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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

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
St George in the East on GENUKI