Homerton, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Homerton, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HOMERTON, a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry, in Hackney parish, Middlesex. The suburb lies on the N London Railway, near Victoria Park and Hackney stations, 3 ¼ miles NE of St. Paul's; has a post office under London NE, and a railway station; and consists largely of suburban residences of city merchants and opulent tradesmen. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Population in 1861, 8,663. Houses, 1,306. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of London.

Ram's proprietary chapel [which was founded 1723 and pulled down in 1846] is here, and is in the patronage of Trustees. Three dissenting chapels, and Robinson's alms houses for 12 ministers' widows, also are here. An Independents theological college was founded here soon after the Revolution; was rebuilt in 1823; had then an income of £2,033; and was consolidated, in 1850, with Coward and Highbury colleges into the New college, St. John's Wood.

St Barnabas Homerton High Street, was created in the year 1846 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of St John Hackney.

See A Comprehensive List of Hackney District Churches in Pre-1900.

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
Homerton 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
Homerton in Hackney on GENUKI