Enfield St James, Middlesex Genealogy

England   Middlesex   Middlesex Parishes   Enfield St James

Parish History
Enfield St James was a district church built as a chapel of ease for St Andrew Enfield--the ancient parish church, and established by the year 1832. ¹

A district church, dedicated to St. James, [was] erected on Enfield Highway, in the division of Green-Street and Ponder's End; it is a handsome structure in the early English style, with a square embattled tower ornamented by pinnacles at the angles. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £150; patron, the Vicar of Enfield. ²

1. P.B. Dunn, A Guide to Ancestral Research in London, (BYU Printing Services, 2010).

2. Samuel Lewis, ed. A Topographical Dictionary of England 173-177. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848), Online | here, (accessed: 21 April 2010).

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
To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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Census records
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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
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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

Web sites
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