Norton Folgate, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
NORTON FOLGATE, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Whitechapel, locally in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex; adjoining the ward of Bishopsgate Without in the city of London, Norton Folgate called also Norton Folley, derives its name from its situation north of Bishopsgate, and the adjunct to its name probably from the Saxon Foldweg.

Norton Folgate, the street so called is the north continuation of Bishopsgate Street Without, and extends to Shoreditch. It is also the name of a Liberty or manor, which belonged to the cathedral of St Paul as early as the Conquest. This district being extra-parochial, the inhabitants support their own poor, and bury and marry where they please, but they mostly use a chapel, built be Sir George Wheeler, a Prebendary of Durham, for his tenants in Spitalfields. In this liberty there are also a small workhouse, a girl's school, and a free school for boys".

NORTON-FOLGATE, an extra-parochial liberty in Whitechapel district, Middlesex: within the metropolis, in the line of Ermine Street, at the end of Bishopsgate Street, 1¼ mile NE of St. Paul's. It took the former part of its name from its situation N of Bishopsgate, and the latter part from the Saxon Foldweg, signifying a "highway", in allusion to Ermine Street; and the name was formerly written Northern Foldgate. Acres, 9. Real property, £23,617. Pop. in 1851, 1,771; in 1861, 1,873. Houses, 227. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. An Augustinian priory was founded here, in 1197, by William Brune; and had an income at the dissolution valued at £558. A theatre here was burned in 1839.¹

James Elmes, M.R. I. A., Architect. In “A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs,” (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831).

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1600 Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Nortonfolgate (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

Probate Records
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