Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Westminster.-- parl. borough and city, Middlesex, on N bank of River Thames, in W of London, 2546 ac. The parl. limits include the parish of St James Westminster, St Margaret and St John the Evangelist Westminster, St George Hanover Square, St Anne Soho, St Martin in the Fields.

c. Westminster is the seat of government and the residence of royalty, and contains, besides Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, St James's Palace and Buckingham Palace. It was formerly separated from the city of London by Temple Bar. etc.

The Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, was an extra-parochial enclave or place situated jurisdictionally between St John [the Evangelist] and St Margaret, Westminster, but lying within Westminster Abbey's boundary.

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
Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter 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
Close of the Collegiate Church in Westminster Abbey on GENUKI