Shoreditch St Agatha, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Shoreditch St Agatha, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SHOREDITCH, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex; forming a north-eastern portion of the metropolis, and, with Haggerston and Hoxton. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyan and other Methodists.

St Agatha Shoreditch was one of about 12 district churches, built between 1871, that lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Leonard Shoreditch.

Curtain Road or, otherwise known as Shoreditch St James, Curtain Road began functioning as a district church in 1839 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Leonard Shoreditch.

Here is a chronological list of District Churches and Chapels in St Leonard Shoreditch:
 * Merchant Taylor’s School Mission -
 * Aske’s Hospital Chapel, Hackney - 1696- Baptisms 1731-1744 ; Marriages 1696-1753
 * Geffrye’s Almshouses Chapel, Kingsland Road - 1794
 * St John the Baptist, Hoxton - 1826
 * St Mary Haggerston Road, Haggerston - 1829
 * Christ Church, Hoxton - 1839
 * St James, Curtain Road - 1839
 * St Philip Dalston - 1844
 * Holy Trinity, Bletchley Street, Hoxton - 1848
 * St Mark Old Street Road - 1848
 * All Saints Haggerston - 1855
 * St Paul Haggerston - 1858
 * St Paul Haggerston - 1861
 * St Michael, Mark Street, Shoreditch - 1862
 * St Saviour Hoxton - 1862
 * St Augustine Haggerston - 1863 (part from Bethnal Green parishes)
 * St Chad Haggerston - 1863
 * St Columba Haggerston - 1863
 * St Andrew Hoxton - 1863
 * St Stephen, Goldsmith’s Row, Haggerston - 1864
 * St Anne Hoxton - 1865
 * Holy Trinity Shoreditch - 1866
 * St Mary Hoxton - 1866
 * St Peter Hoxton Square - 1869
 * St Mark St Mark’s Rise, Dalston - 1870
 * St Agatha Haggerston - 1871
 * St Mark Dalston with St. Bartholomew - 1871
 * Holy Trinity, Beechwood Road, Dalston - 1879
 * St Bartholomew Dalston – 1879
 * St Paul, Broke Road, Haggerston - 1893

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Shoreditch on GENUKI