St Martin Outwich, London Genealogy

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London St Martin Outwich 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
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, Bishopsgate Ward - The Parisshe of Saynt Martin, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1541 London Subsidy Roll, Broad Street Ward - Saint Martyns Oute Wytche, courtesy: British History Online

1547 Subsidy

 * St Martin Outwich, Bishopsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/139); copy:.
 * St Martin Outwich, Broad Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/144); copy:.

1564 Subsidy

 * St Martin Outwich, Broad Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/145/217); copy:.



1582 Subsidy

 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Bishopsgate Ward - St Martine Outwiche Parishe, courtesy: British History Online
 * 1582 London Subsidy Roll, Broad Street Ward - St Martines Outwiche, courtesy: British History Online

1621 Subsidy

 * St Martin Outwich, Broad Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/489); copy:.

1625 Subsidy

 * St Martin Outwich, Bishopsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/511); copy:.

1628 Subsidy

 * St Martin Outwich, Broad Street Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/556); copy:.

1638 Inhabitants List

 * Inhabitants of London in 1638 - St Martin Outwich, courtesy: British History Online

1646 Subsidy

 * St Martin Outwich, Bishopsgate Ward, London (The National Archives, Ref: E179/147/597); copy:.

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 Martin Outwich Parish the unique surname Outwich.

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Parish History
"St Martin Outwich, the church of, is situated at the southeast corner of Threadneedle Street, in Bishopsgate Street. It obtained its name from being dedicated aforementioned St. Martin, and its edition from William and John the odds wake, who were anciently its proprietors and patrons. In 1325 John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, presented to this living, but dying without issue, it devolved to the crown, and came afterwards into the possession of the Merchant Taylors' [sic] Company, who have ever since enjoyed the ride of patronage. You'll church, which was built in 1540, was one of the few that escaped the ravages of the fire of London, but it became afterwards so dilapidated by age, and the large fire that consumed much of the adjacent property in 1765, that it was taken down in 1795, and the first stone of the present edifice was laid on the fourth of May 1796. It is a neat small church, erected from the designs of the late Mr. Cockerell, and has a fresco painting of The Ascension, by Rigaud, over the altar.

"The church is a rectory, in the city, diocese and archdeaconry of London, and in the patronage of the Merchant Taylors' Company."

St Martin Outwich belonged to Bishopsgate Ward and/or Broad Street Ward.

St Martin Outwich The church is said to have been rebuilt by the Oteswiches (whose name became corrupted into Outwich) in the 14th Century. It was known in 1558 by the name of St. Martin's. The church escaped the Fire of London (though the church was rebuilt in 1796) until removal in 1874 to the Church of St. Helen's (1873), there to be re erected in the Chapel of the Holy Ghost, appropriated as a mortuary chapel of St. Martin's.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * London Family History Centre Catalogue (St Martin Outwich Parish Church records)
 * Sketch of St Martin Outwich Parish Church (1830), courtesy: London Ancestor
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