All Hallows Bread Street with St John the Evangelist, London Genealogy

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London All Hallows Bread Street with St John the Evangelist family history and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers (baptisms, christenings, marriages, and burials), civil registration (births, marriages, and deaths), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and website resources.

Church records
All Hallows, Bread Street and St John the Evangelist Friday Street were originally two parishes. Each maintained separate parish registers.

St John the Evangelist Friday Street Parish
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. Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection. Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Bread Street Ward - Alhalleu Paryshe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Cordwainer Ward - Allhallowe Paryshe, courtesy: British History Online (is this the correct Allhallows?)
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Bread Street Ward - Saynt John the Evangelyst Paryshe in Watlyn Strett, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Farringdon Ward Within - The Parish of Seynt Ewen (or St. Audoen), courtesy: British History Online (is this St. John the Evangelist?)

1547 Subsidy

 * All Hallows, Bread Street, Bread Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/140); copy:.
 * All Hallows, Bread Street, Cordwainer Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/141); copy:.
 * St John the Evangelist, Friday Street, Bread Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/140); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Bread Street Ward - Allhallowes Parishe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll - St John Evangelist Parishe, courtesy: British History Online

1589 Subsidy

 * (see page 150)
 * , courtesy: Family History Archives (see page 150)

1621 Subsidy

 * All Hallows, Bread Street, Bread Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/483); copy:.
 * St John the Evangelist, Friday Street, Bread Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/483); copy:.

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - All Hallows, Bread Street, courtesy: British History Online.
 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street, courtesy: British History Online.

1645-1646 Subsidy

 * All Hallows, Bread Street, Bread Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/590 Part 2); copy:.

(see also supplements)

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.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.

Court of the Deanery of the Arches of London, Croydon, and Shoreham probate records are available online at for free.

Before 1858, fell under the jurisdiction of the The Court of Arches of the Archbishop of Canterbury. From 1858 to the present, refer to the Principal Probate Registry.

Go to London Probate Records to find the names of the courts having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Records of the Poor
During the seventeenth century, officials gave some foundlings discovered in St John the Evangelist Parish the unique surname Evangelist.

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

All Hallows Bread Street Timeline

 * 1227 - first mentioned
 * 1666 - church destroyed by Great Fire of London
 * 1681-1684 - church rebuilt; united with St John the Evangelist Parish
 * 1878 - church demolished; furnishings distributed among other London churches

St John the Evangelist Timeline

 * 1666 - church destroyed by Great Fire of London; never rebuilt; united with All Hallows Bread Street Parish

1831 description
'All Hallows Bread Street is situated at the corner of Bread Street and Watling Street, and takes its name from the same dedication as the last, and its situation, which is near to the ancient Bread Market of the city. It was originally a rectory of very ancient foundation, under the patronage of the Prior and Canons of Christ Church, Canterbury, but since the Reformation it was conveyed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, of which see, it is one of the thirteen peculiars within the city. The old church was destroyed by the great fire in 1666. The present edifice was erected from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren as a church in the united parishes of All Hallows, Bread Street, and St. John the Evangelist, the old church of which stood at the northeast of Friday Street and and Watling Street. The body of the church's plain, with dressings of the Tuscan order. It is 72 feet in length, 35 in breadth and 30 in height. It is an excellent specimen of the talents of Sir Christopher Wren in substantial and useful church building.'

All Hallows Bread Street and St John the Evangelist parishes were part of Bread Street Ward. The parish name has also been spelled Allhallows Bread Street. All Hallows Bread Street Church was torn down in 1876.

St John the Evangelist Parish was also known as St John the Evangelist Friday Street Parish. Another name is St John the Evangelist Watling Street Parish.

1848 parish description: Allhallows, Bread-street, with St. John the Evangelist, are parishes in the city of London within the Walls. The patron is the Archbishop, and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, alternately. They are parishes within the poor-law union of the City of London.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (All Hallows Bread Street Parish Church records)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St John the Evangelist Friday Street Parish Church records)
 * Sketch of All Hallows Bread Street Parish Church, courtesy: London Ancestor
 * (to narrow results, conduct subject searches for 'London All Hallows Bread Street' or 'London St John the Evangelist')