West Holloway St Luke, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
West Holloway St Luke, Middlesex. ISLINGTON: a metropolitan suburb, a parish, and a district in Middlesex. The suburb stands on the underground Rivers Fleet and Walbrook, on the New River, on the Regent's canal, and on the North London and Great Northern railways, 2 miles NNW of St. Paul's. The parish is ecclesiastically divided into twenty-two charges with defined limits, and six with undefined limits. One of the twenty-two defined is St. Luke, West Holloway.

St Luke West Holloway was one of about 10 "new churches" to be built within the decade of the 1850's. It was built in the year 1855 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary Islington.

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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.

Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Websites
West Holloway in Islington on GENUKI