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St Lukes Parish - London 1801

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Steve61

Steve61 Report 17 Jan 2007 22:47

Does anyone know what area this covered in 1801 as I am trying to locate an ancestor who comes from this area and there are many churches in London....... Steve.

Carol

Carol Report 17 Jan 2007 22:50

Do you mean St Lukes in the borough of West Ham? - Carol

Judith

Judith Report 17 Jan 2007 23:06

St Luke parish West Ham would have been Essex in 1801 not London. The district you are looking for is probably the parish of St Luke's, Old Street which gave its name to St Luke registration district. It was bounded to the north by Islington and to the east by Shoreditch.

Brit

Brit Report 18 Jan 2007 00:01

For other uses, see St. Luke's. St Luke's is an area in the London Borough of Islington in Greater London, close to the borders with the London Borough of Hackney and the City of London, near the Barbican and Shoreditch. The closest tube station is Barbican. The area includes City Road, Finsbury Square, Whitecross Street and part of Old Street. The name is not often used in modern times. It is named after the church of St Luke Old Street. The parish was created in 1733 (with the construction of the church) as both a civil parish and an ecclesiastical parish, from the part of the parish of St Giles Cripplegate outside the City of London. The parish had a large non-conformist population. John Wesley's house and Wesleyan Chapel are in City Road, as is Bunhill Fields burial ground. In 1751 St Lukes Hospital, an early lunatic asylum, was founded. Rebuilt in 1782 – 1784 by George Dance the Younger, it later became the Bank of England's St Luke's Printing Works producing banknotes and which was relocated in 1958 to Debden in Essex. It was damaged by the Blitz of 1940. The civil parish became officially known as 'St Luke's Middlesex'. The parish was historically in the county of Middlesex, and was included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855. From 1889 it was part of the County of London. The vestry administered local government in the area until the civil parish became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury in 1899.

Brit

Brit Report 18 Jan 2007 00:02

Hi Steven St. Luke was created 1837 also covering Holborn district, and Finsbury. It now registers in Islington district. You might find this helpful, http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/REG/lnd.htm there is a good list of all the districts there. Hope this will help you. Rgds