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England London Boroughs  Richmond upon Thames

Guide to London Borough of Richmond upon Thames ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



History
As with all the other London Boroughs, Richmond upon Thames was organized by the central UK Government in 1965. It is the only new London Borough that straddles the Thames River, with portions both to the north and to the south, as well as being taken from two previous counties of Middlesex and Surrey. It includes the former areas of the Municipal Borough of Twickenham from Middlesex with the Municipal Borough of Richmond and the Municipal Borough of Barnes from Surrey. Family History Researchers should be aware that they should look for these separate entities in the County of Middlesex (a county no longer in existence) as well as the county of Surrey, rather than the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, although a lot of useful information is available from the latter source, as well as the two counties listed.

The area now known as Richmond was formerly part of Shene. Shene was not listed in Domesday Book, although it is depicted on the associated maps as Sceon, its Saxon spelling. Henry VII had a palace built there and in 1501 he named it Richmond Palace in recognition of his earldom and his ancestral home at Richmond Castle in Yorkshire. The town that developed nearby took the same name as the palace.

Henry I lived briefly in the King's house in "Sheanes". In 1299 Edward I, the "Hammer of the Scots", took his whole court to the manor house at Sheen, a little east of the bridge and on the riverside, and it thus became a royal residence; William Wallace was executed in London in 1305, and it was in Sheen that the Commissioners from Scotland went down on their knees before Edward.

Edward II, following his defeat by the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, founded a monastery for Carmelites at Sheen. When the boy-king Edward III came to the throne in 1327 he gave the manor to his mother Isabella. Edward later spent over £2,000 on improvements, but in the middle of the work Edward himself died at the manor, in 1377. Richard II was the first English king to make Sheen his main residence, which he did in 1383. Twelve years later Richard was so distraught at the death of his wife Anne of Bohemia at the age of 28 that, according to Holinshed, the 16th-century English chronicler, he "caused it [the manor] to be thrown down and defaced; whereas the former kings of this land, being wearie of the citie, used customarily thither to resort as to a place of pleasure, and serving highly to their recreation". It was rebuilt between 1414 and 1422, but destroyed by fire in 1497.

Following that fire Henry VII built a new residence at Sheen and in 1501 he named it Richmond Palace. There are unconfirmed beliefs that Shakespeare may have performed some plays there. When Elizabeth I became queen she spent much of her time at Richmond, as she enjoyed hunting stags in the "Newe Parke of Richmonde" (now Old Deer Park). She died at the palace on 24 March 1603. The palace was no longer in residential use after 1649, but in 1688 James II ordered its partial reconstruction: this time as a royal nursery. The bulk of the palace had decayed by 1779; but surviving structures include the Wardrobe, Trumpeter's House (built around 1700), and the Gate House, built in 1501. This has five bedrooms and was made available on a 65-year lease by the Crown Estate Commissioners in 1986.

Beyond the grounds of the old palace, Richmond remained mostly agricultural land until the 18th century. White Lodge, in the middle of what is now Richmond Park, was built as a hunting lodge for George II and during this period the number of large houses in their own grounds – such as Asgill House and Pembroke Lodge – increased significantly. These were followed by the building of further important houses including Downe House, Wick House and The Wick on Richmond Hill, as this area became an increasingly fashionable place to live. Richmond Bridge was completed in 1777 to replace a ferry crossing that connected Richmond town center on the east bank with its neighboring district of East Twickenham. Today, this, together with the well-preserved Georgian terraces that surround Richmond Green and line Richmond Hill to its crest, now has listed building status.

As Richmond continued to prosper and expand during the 19th century, much luxurious housing was built on the streets that line Richmond Hill, as well as shops in the town center to serve the increasing population. In July 1892 the Corporation formed a joint-stock company, the Richmond (Surrey) Electric Light and Power Company, and this wired the town for electricity by around 1896.

Like many other large towns in Britain, Richmond lost many young people in the First and Second World Wars. In the Second World War, 96 people were killed in air raids, which also resulted in the demolition of 297 houses.

Cemeteries (Civil)
Abney Park Cemetery


 * South Lodge
 * Stoke Newington High Street
 * London N16 0LH
 * Tel: 020 7275 7557

International Jewish Cemetery Project: Hackney Cemetery


 * Lauriston Road
 * London E9
 * +44 20 8985 1527

East London Cemetery and Crematorium


 * Grange Rd
 * London E13 0HB
 * Phone: +44 20 7476 5109

Manor Park Cemetery


 * Sebert Rd
 * Forest Gate, London E7 0NP
 * Phone: +44 20 8534 1486

Tower Hamlets Cemetery (Historic cemetery; closed for present burials)


 * Southern Grove
 * London E3 4PX
 * Phone: +44 20 8983 1277

Highgate Cemetery


 * Swain's Ln
 * Highgate, London N6 6PJ
 * Phone: +44 20 8340 1834

Walthamstow Cemetery


 * Queens Rd
 * Walthamstow, London E17 8QP
 * Phone: +44 20 8524 5030

Parishes
Bromley Parish Church


 * 9 St Paul's Square
 * Bromley, BR2 0XH
 * Tel: 020 8460 6275

St Mary's


 * College Rd
 * Bromley BR1 3QG
 * Phone: +44 20 8466 6969

St Mary the Virgin


 * Hayes St
 * Bromley BR2 7LH
 * Phone: +44 20 8462 1373

Christ Church


 * Highland Road
 * Bromley, Kent BR1 4AA
 * Phone: 020 8464 1898

St Mark's


 * Westmoreland Rd
 * Bromley BR2 0TB
 * Phone: +44 20 8460 6220

St John's


 * Park Rd
 * Bromley BR1 3HJ
 * Phone: +44 20 8460 1844

St George's


 * High St
 * Beckenham BR3 1AX
 * Phone: +44 20 8663 6996

Christ Church


 * 1A Christ Church Rd
 * Beckenham BR3 3LE
 * Phone: +44 20 8650 3847

All Saints


 * Trewsbury Rd
 * London SE26 5DP
 * Phone: +44 20 8778 3065

St John's


 * St John's Rd
 * London SE20 7EQ
 * Phone: +44 20 8778 6176

All Saints, Orpington


 * Bark Hart Rd ,
 * Orpington BR6 0QD
 * Phone: +44 1689 832031

St Martin of Tours


 * 5 Church Rd
 * Chelsfield, Orpington BR6 7RF
 * Phone: +44 1689 825749

St Nicholas'


 * 18 Church Row
 * Chislehurst BR7 5PG

Christ Church, Chislehurst


 * 40 Lubbock Rd
 * Chislehurst BR7 5JJ
 * Phone: +44 20 8402 5081

St Thomas's


 * 1 Clapton Terrace
 * London E5 9BW
 * Phone: +44 20 8806 1463

Non Conformists

 * Baptist
 * Christ Church
 * Christ Apostolic
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * Evangelical
 * Grace Church
 * Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Lutheran
 * Methodist
 * Redeemed Christian Church of God
 * Roman Catholic
 * Salvation Army
 * Seventh Day Adventist
 * Vineyard

There are a number of communities of non Christian religions including the following:


 * Baha'i
 * Buddhist
 * Scientology
 * Confucian
 * Jews
 * Muslim
 * Sikh

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the UK government from July 1837 to the present day. Prior to that, the only available records were those kept by the ecclesiastical bodies. As the Borough of Hackney was previously part of the County of Middlesex (no longer in existence), the link to Middlesex County BMD records is listed below.


 * Hackney Council BMD records


 * bmd-certificates: Hackney Borough


 * ukbmd.org: Middlesex


 * ukbmd.org" Hackney Borough

Local Histories

 * Hackney Borough Council: History and Heritage


 * British history on line: Stoke Newington


 * British history on line: Shoreditch


 * A History of the Borough of Hackney by David Mander


 * Stoke Newington by Gavin Smith


 * The Shoreditch Tales by Carolyn Clark

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Hackney Borough: map


 * google maps: London Borough of Hackney


 * oldmapsonline: Hackney


 * francisfrith: old maps of Stoke Newington


 * francisfrith: old maps of Shoreditcvh

Newspapers

 * The Hackney Gazette


 * The East London Times


 * The London Evening Standard: Hackney

Occupations
Hackney Borough is primarily a bedroom town for central London. Using the Tube (London's subway system) it is possible to be in Central London from the Borough in less than 15 minutes. Large businesses have been moving away from Central London in general, and the northern Boroughs in particular. Since 2005 there has been a decrease in large employers (more than 100 employees) in Hackney, falling from 1.2% to 0.7% in 2015. Almost all businesses in Hackney (99.8%) employ fewer than 250 staff and 9 out of 10 businesses in Hackney (90.3%) can be defined as micro-businesses because they employ fewer than ten people. This is slightly higher than the Inner London average of 88.3%.

The primary large local employers are the local council and the National Health Service at Homerton University Hospital; there are also two London Transport garages, one at the foot of the Narroway, and another about 1 mile south at Ash Grove. Between Ash Grove and London Fields there is a small industrial estate.

The number of businesses in the Information & communication sector in the borough has almost doubled since 2010 (up 97%) and the Professional, scientific & technical sector has seen an increase of 1,550 businesses (72%).

Many of the opportunities available in Hackney are at the lower end, menial or shop type positions, requiring no training past the normal secondary education. There are a number of positions available in the Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services (1,350 / 9%).

Societies

 * East of London Family History Society


 * Hackney History Society


 * London Westminster and Middlesex FHS

Archives

 * Hackney Council Archives


 * The National Archives: Hackney


 * The National Archives: Stoke Newington


 * The National Archives: SHoreditch

Web Sites

 * The Hackney Borough Council


 * The London Borough of Hackney: wikipedia


 * Hackney Central: wikipedia


 * Stoke Newington: wikipedia


 * Shoreditch, wikipedia


 * Middlesex: wikipedia