Holborn St George the Martyr, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Holborn St George the Marter, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
St George the Martyr Holborn, sometimes called St George the Martyr, was created in the year 1706. It lies partially in the civil parish of St Andrew Holborn, and partially in the West London (City of) Division. It is one of the very few parishes which is considered to be part of the City of London proper, and yet a fair-sized portion lies just outside of London's City walls and in the old Middlesex County. See also London St Andrew Holborn and St Sepulchre parishes.

HOLBORN, a part of the metropolis, a parish, and a district in Middlesex. It contains the rest of the ecclesiastical St. Andrew Holborn above the Bars, the parish of St. George-the-Martyr and the township of Lincoln's Inn.

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
Holborn St George the Martyr 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
Holborn on GENUKI

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