Bloomsbury St George, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
'BLOOMSBURY, or St. George-Bloomsbury, was a parish, which in the 19th century was also a subdistrict, in the district of St. Giles, Middlesex. It lay about 1.25 of a mile west by northwest St. Paul Cathedral, London. According to the famous topographer, Samuel Lewis, St George-Bloomsbury lay originally in a part of St. Giles-in-the-Fields parish, but was consecrated a parish by 1729.

Christ Church in Woburn Square was built in the year 1833. In 1845 the French Episcopal Chapel, in Bloomsbury Street, was built. Bedford Chapel formerly of Charlotte Street was built in 1771.

1848 parish description St. George, Bloomsbury, is a parish in Holborn. It is adjacent to the City of London, in the hundred of Ossulstone, Middlesex. The patron is the Crown.

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
Bloomsbury St George 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.

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.

Poor Law Unions
St Giles in the Fields; St George Bloomsbury

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
Bloomsbury on GENUKI