Hornsey St Mary, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HORNSEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Edmonton, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 6 miles (N. by W.) from London; There is a small neat chapel at Crouch-End which is also a place of worship for Baptists.

'HORNSEY, a metropolitan suburb, a parish, and a sub-district, in Edmonton district, Middlesex, 5½ miles north by northwest of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. At Domesday it was known as Haringe, or later, as Harringay.

'See also Crouch-End, Fortis-Green, Muswell-Hill, StroudGreen, and part of Highgate--each with chapels attached to them.' Here's a A Comprehensive List of Chapels in Pre-1900 Hornsey St Mary.

'Also built here, was an Independent chapel.'

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.

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.

1600 Lay Subsidy

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

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Hornsey at British History Online - free.

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.

Manorial Records
Records survive for Topsfield Manor (1466-1781) in Hornsey Parish. The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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

 * Sketch of Hornsey Parish Churchat London Ancestor
 * Hornsey on GENUKI