All Hallows Barking, London Genealogy

London All Hallows Barking ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

All Hallows Barking Timeline

 * 675 - founded; oldest church in London
 * 1650 - gunpowder explosion destroyed church tower
 * 1658 - church tower rebuilt
 * 1940s - bombed during London Blitz, later restored

1831 description
'The church of All Hallows Barking [parish registers from 1558] is situated the East End of Tower Street Corner of Seething Lane. It receives its name as having been dedicated to All Saints, formerly called All Hallows, and from being before the Reformation a vicarage in the gift of the Abbess and convent of Barking, in Essex. But on the dissolution of the monasteries advowson was given to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It escaped the fire in 1666, and is of considerable extent, being 180 feet long, 67 broad and 35 high; it has a plain bell tower, with a will proportioned turret, about 80 feet in height from the ground. This church is considerable antiquity, as appears from the circumstance of Richard the First having founded and endowed a Chapel within its walls.'

1848 description Allhallows, Barking, is a parish of London within the walls. The patron is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The old name was “Berkingchurch” it became “All Hallows Barking” in the beginning of the 16th century. The church had a double dedication, to the Virgin Mary and to All Saints. The ancient boundaries of the churchyard are difficult to define, and were probably irregular. All the evidence, however, is that the chapel lay in the cemetery some distance to the north of the church, on a site now pierced by the Underground Railway.

William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, was baptized here.

All Hallows Barking Parish was part of Tower Ward. The modern name of this parish is All Hallows by the Tower and All Hallows Barking by the Tower.

Here's a brief history of this parish, online at the All Hallows, Barking website.

Maskell's 1864 history of the parish has been digitized:


 * Maskell, Joseph. Berkyngechirche juxta Turrim. Collections in Illustration of the Parochial History and Antiquities of the Ancient Parish of Allhallows Barking, in the City of London. 1864. Digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archive; another Internet Archive copy.

Church records
All Hallows Barking 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.

1564 Subsidy

 * All Hallows Barking, Tower Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/201); copy:.

1577 Subsidy

 * 1576 London Subsidy Roll, St Dunstans Mary Barking St Olyves and Allhallowes at Alan H. Nelson website (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252)
 * St Dunstan in the East, All Hallows Barking, St Olave, Hart Street, and All Hallows Staining, Tower Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/252); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Tower Ward - Alhallowes Parishat British History Online

1621 Subsidy

 * All Hallows Barking, Tower Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/501); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - All Hallows Barkingat British History.

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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.

Probate records
Before 1858, fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London. 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 wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.

Cemetery
A survey of monumental brasses, published 1891, is available online. A 1934 survey of monuments within the church and in the churchyard is available online. Find A Grave lists information about 19 burials at All Hallows by the Tower Church.

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

 * All Hallows by the Tower (official website). Photographs, history, visitor directions.
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue
 * (to narrow results, conduct a subject search for 'London All Hallows Barking')