Contacts, Links & Registers

Contacts, Links & Registers

THE PARISH OFFICE - St George-in-the-East Church, 14 Cannon Street Road, London E1 0BH

Parish Administrator Fiona Lawrence (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday mornings)

020 7481 1345 office@stgite.org.uk

You can also contact the wardens, Treasurer and PCC Secretary via the office.

THE RECTOR - Canon Michael Ainsworth

The Rectory, 16 Cannon Street Road, London E1 0BH

020 7481 1345 rector@stgite.org.uk or michael@ainsworths.org.uk

ST PAUL'S WHITECHAPEL CE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Headteacher Terry Bennett
Wellclose Square, London E1 8HY

020 7480 6581 admin@st-pauls.towerhamlets.sch.uk
www.st-pauls.towerhamlets.sch.uk

COLLEGE OF ST MELLITUS -
NORTH THAMES MINISTERIAL TRAINING COURSE
Director The Revd Dr David Hilborn
St George-in-the-East Church, Crypt East, 14 Cannon Street Road, London E1 0BH

020 7481 9477 ntmtc@stmellitus.org www.stmellitus.org/ntmtc

GREEN GABLES MONTESSORI NURSERY
Headteacher Grace Ivory
St George-in-the-East Church, Crypt West, 14 Cannon Street Road, London E1 0BH

020 7488 2374 info@greengables.org.uk www.greengables.org.uk

for the Diocese of London, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Stepney, the Archdeacon of Hackney,
the Area Dean of Tower Hamlets, see diocesan website

ST GEORGE-IN-THE-PINES, Banff, Canada - with whom we have friendship links: the George Belcher, the Rector, has visited us, and Edith Wyeth's grand-daughter Ruth and her partner Jason recently stayed in Banff - see pictures HERE, and visit their website www.stgeorgesinthepines.org

PARISH REGISTERS & RECORDS

All the registers from the closed churches which were once within the parish, and non-current registers from St George-in-the-East, are deposited at the London Metropolitan Archive (formerly known as the Greater London Records Office), 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB, tel 020 7332 3820, which should be approached directly for enquiries. They are very helpful! Click here to contact them by email. (There is a letter of 1958 enclosed in one of the registers from an American attorney offering rewards of between $25 and $100 for various names - one of several thousand he claimed to have sent. This obviously predates the world-wide web and the scanning of registers by Mormons and others!)

The only burial record held by the parish is a calligraphic list - a copy from the duplicate book lists of the London Necropolis Company - of the 686 boxes and lead coffins removed from the crypt and reburied at Brookwood Cemetery between 11 October and 9 November 1960 - click image right to view.

Two former daughter churches - St Mary Cable Street (Johnson Street) and St Peter London Dock (Wapping) - are separate parishes with their own registers, and should be contacted directly.

Click here for a useful site with dates and maps of former parish boundaries

	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
St George-in the East	1729-1928 ⁽¹⁾	1729-1966 ⁽²⁾	1729-1856 ⁽³⁾
Christ Church Watney Street	1842-1942	1864-1970	no burials
St John Grove (Golding) Street	1869-1943	1870-1948	no burials
St Matthew Pell Street	1859-1891	1850-1891	no burials
St Mark Goodman Fields (Whitechapel)	1840-1926	1841-1926	no burials
St Paul Dock Street	1848-1982	1864-1970	no burials

(1)    1729-1901 on microfilm (P93 X24 or X92 or X97)
(2)    1729-1894 on microfilm (P93 X24 or X97)
(3)    1729-1875 a mixture of originals (P93/GEO), microfilm (P93 X24) and Bishop's transcripts (DL/T/76); no records available from Feb 1773 - June 1777

Note: while you can still search the microfilms, LMA has now digitised most of these records, and offers free access at their premises to ancestry.co.uk with whom they have established a partnership, so that you can search online by name. (To do this from home you have to subscribe.)

LMA also hold churchwardens' accounts (1779-1804); copies of registers from 1805-1848, an exhumation faculty of 1857 and a ledger of various accounts from 1792-96. Post-1836 records of parish Poor Law institutions are listed in Stepney Board of Guardians, St George in the East (ST/BG/SG)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library, 277 Bancroft Road E1 4DQ (020 7364 1290), localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk, holds daybooks for baptisms (1729-1840, with some gaps), banns of marriage (1729-1879, with some gaps), burials (1729-36 and 1747-67), Vestry minutes (1729, 1749, 1766-1832 & 1860-67), and posters, papers and newspaper cuttings from 1844-72, particularly in relation to the ritualism riots, including Monitions to the Rector (TH/8454). This library is a marvellous resource for much other information about the parish, with helpful and knowledgeable staff.

The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, Aldermanbury EC2V 7HH (020 7332 1863), manuscripts.guildhall@cityoflondon.gov.uk, is the local record office for the City of London, and holds copies of some faculties granted between 1820 and 1994, plus two files of other legal deeds and documents (19224/258).