Bromley St Leonard, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
BROMLEY ST LEONARD, is a parish in Poplar district, Middlesex; it lays 3.75 miles northeast of St. Paul Cathedral, London. Within St Leonard's boundary were the chapels of St. Michael (built by 1868), St. Gabriel and St. Andrew, both of which were built by the year 1869.

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
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.

1600 Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Broomeley (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1640 Protestation Return

 * Stepney (including Limehouse, Poplar, Blackwall, Old Ford, Stratford Bow, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Mile-End, St. Leonard Bromley, and Ratcliffe) (House of Lords), Copy:.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Bromley at British History Online - free.

1693-1694 Four Shilling in the Pound Aid

 * St Leonard Bromley at British History Online - free.

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
Bromley St Leonard on GENUKI