Finsbury St Paul, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
FINSBURY, a borough, a division, and a sub-district, in Middlesex. The borough is an integral part of the metropolis; lies between the Tower Hamlets and Marylebone.

One of the oldest of the smaller district churches within the borough and civil parish of St Luke Old Street Finsbury, St Paul's Bunhill Row was established in the year 1839. It lays within the boundaries of St Luke Old Street.

Additionally, there was another St Paul, called St Paul Pear Tree which was likewise a district church built to ease the population increases in the borough of St Luke's, established and in operation by the year 1865.

For a list of all churches and chapels of the Church of England within the civil parish of Finsbury, see St Luke's Old Street (Finsbury).

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
Finsbury St Paul 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.

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
Finsbury on GENUKI