St George Botolph-Lane with St Botolph Billingsgate, London Genealogy

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London St George Botolph-Lane with St Botolph Billingsgate family history and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers (baptisms, christenings, marriages, and burials), civil registration (births, marriages, and deaths), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and website resources.

Church records
St George Botolph-Lane and St Botolph Billingsgate were originally two individual parishes. Each maintained separate parish registers.

St George Botolph-Lane
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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

1541 Subsidy

 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Billingsgate Ward - The Paryshe of Saynt Botulphe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Billingsgate Ward - The Paryshe of Saynt George, courtesy: British History Online

1547 Subsidy

 * St Botolph, Billingsgate, Billingsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/151); copy:.
 * St George, Botolph Lane, Billingsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/151); copy:.

1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy, Billingsgate Ward - St Buttolphes Parishe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy, Billingsgate Ward - St Georges &amp; St Margaretes Parishes, courtesy: British History Online

1621 Subsidy

 * St Botolph, Billingsgate, Billingsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/486); copy:.
 * St George, Botolph Lane, Billingsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/486); copy:.

1628 Subsidy

 * St Botolph, Billingsgate, Billingsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/563); copy:.
 * St George, Botolph Lane, Billingsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/563); copy:.

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Botolph, Billingsgate, courtesy: British History Online
 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St George Buttolph Lane, courtesy: British History Online

1645 Subsidy

 * St Botolph, Billingsgate, Billingsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/583); copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St Botolph by Billingsgate, courtesy: British History Online
 * Hearth Tax: City of London 1666 - St George Botolph Lane, courtesy: British History Online

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.

Probate records
Before 1858, fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London. From 1858 to the present, refer to the Principal Probate Registry.

Go to London Probate Records to find the names of the courts having secondary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.

Records of the Poor
During the seventeenth century, officials gave some foundlings discovered in St Botolph Billingsgate Parish the unique surname Billingsgate.

Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

St Botolph Billingsgate Timeline

 * 1666 - church destroyed by Great Fire of London
 * 1666 - never rebuilt; united with St George Botolph-Lane Parish

St George Botolph-Lane Timeline

 * 1180 - first mentioned
 * 1666 - church badly damaged by Great Fire of London
 * 1666 - united with St Botolph Billingsgate Parish
 * 1671-1676 - church rebuilt
 * 1904 - church demolished

1831 description
"St George Botolph-Lane with St Botolph Billingsgate, the church of, is situated a few houses on the right from Little Eastcheap. It derives its name from the ancient English Saint George of Cappadocia. It is an ancient rectory...and was originally in the gift of the Abbott and convent of St. Saviour Bermondsey, at whose dissolution it came to the crown. The old church was burned down in 1666, and the present edifice erected in 1674, by Sir Christopher Wren.  The exterior is in a handsome old style, and decorated with some well executed sculpture; the interior is composed of the nave and two aisles, separated like columns of the composite order, which support a handsome vaulted roof.  It is 54 feet in length, 36 in breadth, and 36 in height.  After the fire, the parish of St. Botolph, (see that church [St Botolph Billingsgate]), was united by act of Parliament to this parish.  That parish was also a rectory, the advowson of which was anciently in lay hands, but in 1194 was successfully claimed by the Dean and chapter of St. Paul's, under a deed of gift from Odgarus. It continued with them till its union with St. George, when the patronage was exerted by them and the crown, alternately. It is in the city and Archdeaconry of London..."

1848 parish description:
St. Boloph, Billingsgate with St. George, Botolph-lane are parishes of the city of London Within the Walls. The patron is the Crown, and the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, alternately. They are parishes within the poor-law union of the City of London.

Additional jurisdictions
St Botolph Billingsgate Parish was also known as St Botolph by Billingsgate Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Botolph Billingsgate Parish records)
 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St George Botolph-Lane Parish records)
 * (to narrow results, conduct subject searches for 'London St Botolph Billingsgate' or 'London St George')