Shadwell St Paul Middlesex Family History Guide

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Shadwell St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1670 from Stepney St Dunstan Ancient Parish; located on The Highway.

Alternative names: St Paul Shadwell

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1670
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1663-64; 1800

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SHADWELL, a parish and a sub-district in Stepney district, Middlesex.

The parish lies on the river Thames, near the Blackwall railway, 2½ miles ESE of St. Paul’s, London; took its name from St. Chad’s mineral well, in Sun Tavern fields; was part of Stepney till 1669; continued till then to be a hamlet, belonging to the Nealds.

It is now a compact portion of the metropolis, divided into Lower S. and Upper S.; is inhabited, in its L. part, chiefly by ship-chandlers, provision-merchants, sail-makers, anchor-smiths, coopers, and seamen; contains Lascar barracks and the new works of the London docks; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under London E, and a police station. Acres, 99; of which 31 are water. Real property, £27, 137; of which £96 are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 11, 702; in 1861, 8, 499. Houses, 1,066. The decrease of pop. was caused partly by demolition of houses for the new works of the London-dock.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of London. Value, £452. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church was rebuilt in 1821, at a cost of £14,000; and is a brick edifice, with a steeple.

There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, national schools with an endowed income of £220, dissenters’ schools with £70, alms-houses for 31 seamen’s widows with £38, and other charities £15. A Roman grave was found in 1615. M. Mead, the nonconformist, was rector from 1658 till 1662.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Business records and commerce ( 1 )
Water works accounts, 1726
Author: Shadwell (Middlesex)

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Shadwell, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Church records ( 9 )
Births and baptisms, 1824-1836
Author: Ebenezer Chapel (Shadwell, Middlesex : Independent)

Bishop’s transcripts for Shadwell, 1663-1664
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Shadwell (Middlesex)

Church records, 1822-1837
Author: Ebenezer Chapel (Shadwell, Middlesex : Independent)

Docklands Ancestors Ltd : parish register transcriptions : compendium
Author: Docklands Ancestors

Marriage allegations at parish churches; Allhallows London Wall, Holy Trinity Minorites, St. Dunstan Stepney ..
Author: Church of England. Holy Trinity Minories Church (London); Church of England. St. Dunstan Church (Stepney, Middlesex); Church of England. St. James Duke’s Place Church’s (London); Church of England. St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church (Westminster, Middlesex); Church of England. Parish Church of St. Marylebone (Middlesex)

Parish registers of the parish church of Shadwell, 1680-1823
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Shadwell (Middlesex)

St. Paul, Shadwell, baptisms registers, 1852 to 1881
Author: Legon, James William; Church of England. Parish Church of Shadwell (Middlesex)

St. Paul, Shadwell, baptisms registers, 1852 to 1881
Author: Legon, James William; Docklands Ancestors; Church of England. Parish Church of Shadwell (Middlesex)

Transcripts of parish registers of Shadwell, St. Paul, Middlesex, England, 1671-1754
Author: Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Shadwell (Middlesex)

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Lease papers, 1555-1664
Author: Manor of Shadwell (Middlesex)

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
Admission and discharge register, 1818-1837
Author: St. Paul Workhouse (Shadwell, Middlesex)

Poor rate for Shadwell, 1725
Author: Shadwell Parish (Middlesex)

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. – Indexes ( 1 )
Miscellaneous Tower Hamlets indexes, 1725-1853
Author: East of London Family History Society

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessment book, 1744
Author: Shadwell (Middlesex)

Land tax assessment for St. Paul (Shadwell), 1731-1917
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)

Poor rate for Shadwell, 1725
Author: Shadwell Parish (Middlesex)

England, Middlesex, Shadwell – Taxation – Indexes ( 1 )
Miscellaneous Tower Hamlets indexes, 1725-1853
Author: East of London Family History Society

Administration

  • County: Middlesex
  • Civil Registration District: Stepney
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
  • Diocese: London
  • Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
  • Poor Law Union: Stepney
  • Hundred: Ossulstone (Tower Division)
  • Province: Canterbury