Whitechapel St Mary is an Ecclesiastical Parish mostly in Middlesex and partly in London; Created in the early 1600s from Stepney St Dunstan Ancient Parish; Located on Whitechapel High Street.
Alternative names:
- St Mary Matfellon
- St Mary Whitechapel
- Whitechapel St Mary Matfellon
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Whitechapel St Mary
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800
Whitechapel St Jude (Middlesex)
- Parish registers: 1848
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WHITECHAPEL, a parish and a district in Middlesex. The parish lies 1½ mile E of St. Paul’s, London: forms all a compact portion of the metropolis; was part of Stepney parish till 1329; is bisected by the main thoroughfare of Whitechapel High-street, and Whitechapel-road; includes Goodmans-Fields, and part of Wellclose-square; enjoys ready access to several r. stations; has post-offices under London E.
It contains a police station, county court-houses, a large theatre, extensive baths and washhouses, 4 churches, several dissenting chapels, several public schools, the sailors home, the London hospital, the boys’ refuge, the Jews’ orphan asylum, alms houses, a workhouse, and various other institutions; carries on brewing, distilling, sugar-refining, iron-founding, floor-cloth manufacture, dyeing, and other manufacturing or industrial employments.
It is ecclesiastically divided into W.-St. Mary, W.-St. Mark, W.-St. Jude, and W.-St. Paul. Acres, 174. Real property, £126,876. Pop. in 1861, 37,454. Houses, 4,395. The living of St. Mary is a rectory, those of St. Mark and St. Jude are vicarages, and that of St. Paul is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value of St. Mary, St. Mark, and St. Jude, each £300; of St. Paul, £200. Patron of St. Mary, St. Mark, and St. Jude, the Bishop of London: of St. Paul, Trustees.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Whitechapel, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census index series
Author: East of London Family History Society; London & North Middlesex Family History Society
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Church history ( 1 )
A Few historical links of Zoar Chapel and its sunday school, Great Alie Street, London : with addresses to the scholars
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Church records ( 14 )
Church records for St. George’s German Lutheran Church, Whitechapel, 1763-1930
Author: St. George’s German Lutheran Church (Whitechapel, Middlesex)
Church records, 1732-1837
Author: Seventh Day Baptist Church (Mill Yard, Whitechapel)
Church records, 1750-1921
Author: Little Alie Street Chapel (Whitechapel (Middlesex) : Baptist)
Church records, 1763-1853
Author: German Lutheran Church (Whitechapel, England)
Church records, 1784-1837
Author: Wycliffe Chapel (Whitechapel : Independent)
Church records, 1786-1803
Author: Little Prescot Street Chapel (Whitechapel : Baptist)
Church records, 1824-1958
Author: German Protestant Reformed Church (Goodmans-Fields, Middlesex)
Docklands Ancestors Ltd : parish register transcriptions : compendium
Author: Docklands Ancestors
Parish register transcripts, 1616-1625
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Whitechapel (Middlesex)
Parish register transcripts, 1739-1785
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Whitechapel (Middlesex)
Parish registers for St. Jude’s Church, Whitechapel, 1848-1923
Author: Church of England. St. Jude’s Church (Whitechapel, Middlesex); Church of England. St. Jude’s (Tower Hamlets, Middlesex)
Parish registers of St. Mary’s Church, Whitechapel, 1558-1940
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Whitechapel, Middlesex)
Record of members, ca. 1851
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Barking Branch (Essex)
Record of members, Whitechapel (London), Barking (Essex), and Stratford (Essex) Branches, 1844-1889
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Whitechapel Branch (London); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Barking Branch (Essex); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Stratford Branch (Essex)
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Stepney, Wycliffe Chapel Philpot Street Independent, Lond., Eng
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Removal orders, at the Old Artillery Ground in the County of London, 1840-1852
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Public records ( 5 )
Admission and discharge register, 1858-1862
Author: Southgrove porters (Whitechapel)
Parish chest records, 1654-1900
Author: Norton-Folgate (Middlesex)
Parish chest records, 1771-1851
Author: Whitechapel (Middlesex)
Register of deaths; union infirmary, 1877-1901, and union workhouse, 1866-1869
Removal orders, at the Old Artillery Ground in the County of London, 1840-1852
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Schools ( 1 )
School records, 1856-1970
Author: Central Foundation School (Whitechapel, England)
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Taxation ( 6 )
Land tax assessment for Holy Trinity Minories (Whitechapel), 1744-1825
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)
Land tax assessment for Old Artillery Ground Liberty (Whitechapel), 1768-1923
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)
Land tax assessment for Tower Liberty, Without (Middlesex), 1744-1825
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)
Land tax assessment for Whitechapel-St. Mary, 1733-1922
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)
Removal orders, at the Old Artillery Ground in the County of London, 1840-1852
Watch rate for Whitechapel, 1800, 1805
Author: Whitechapel (Middlesex)
England, Middlesex, Whitechapel – Taxation – Indexes ( 1 )
Miscellaneous Tower Hamlets indexes, 1725-1853
Author: East of London Family History Society
Administration
- County: London
- Civil Registration District: Whitechapel
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Whitechapel
- Hundred: Ossulstone (Tower Division)
- Province: Canterbury
