Precinct of St Katherine, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Precinct of St Katherine, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CATHERINE (St.), one of the tower hamlets in London; on the Thames, immediately below the Tower. Most of it was destroyed in 1828, to give place to the St. Catherine docks.

Additional information:

The Precinct of St Katherine-by-the-Tower incorporated the Tower of London including its chapel and the Royal Hospital and its grounds and buildings.

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
Precinct of St Katherine 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
St Katerine by the Tower on GENUKI