Bethnal Green is situated about 1½ miles north of Whitechapel and ¾ mile northeast of Shoreditch and was originally part of the Manor of Stepney. It was the poorest district of Victorian London but two hundred years earlier was a pleasant country area with wealthy residents. By the end of the 17th century the silk-weavers of Spitalfields began spreading into the area and by the mid 18th century it was said to have eighteen hundred houses with fifteen thousand inhabitants - three or four families in a house. By 1840 there were six times as many looms used in Bethnal Green than in Spitalfields and Mile End New Town. Although the weaving industry was in decline, other industries based at home or in small workshops took its place. The "Jago" district around Old Nichol Street was notorious for crime and poverty.
 

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Greenwood's Maps 1827:

Bethnal Green [267 Kbytes]

Church Records:

• St. Matthew, St. Matthew's Row
  Baptisms 1746-1993, Marriages 1746-1987, Burials 1746-1877 : LMA
• All Saints Mission Church, Vyner St
  Baptisms 1896-1920 : LMA
• Holy Trinity, Old Nichol St
  Baptisms 1867-1892, Marriages 1889-1923 : LMA
• Jew's Episcopal Chapel
  Baptisms 1842-1846 : LMA
• St. Andrew, Viaduct St
  Baptisms 1843-1957, Marriages 1843-1957 : LMA
• St. Barnabas, Grove Rd
  Baptisms 1870-1916, Marriages 1871-1917 : LMA
  Baptisms 1916- date, Marriages 1917- date : Not deposited
• St. Bartholomew, Coventry Rd
  Baptisms 1844-1949, Marriages 1844-1955, Burials 1844-1857 : LMA
  Baptisms 1949- date, Marriages 1955- date : Not deposited
• St. James the Great, Bethnal Green Rd
  Baptisms 1844-1981, Marriages 1844-1981 : LMA
• St. James the Less, St. James's Ave
  Baptisms 1843-1956, Marriages 1843-1950, Burials 1846-1855 : LMA
  Baptisms 1956- date, Marriages 1950- date : Not deposited
• St. John
  Baptisms 1837-1931, Marriages 1837-1958, Burials 1847-1855 : LMA
  Baptisms 1931- date, Marriages 1958- date : Not deposited
• St. Jude, Old Bethnal Green Rd
  Baptisms 1846-1945, Marriages 1846-1951 : LMA
• St. Matthias, Cheshire St
  Baptisms 1846-1948, Marriages 1848-1948 : LMA
• St. Paul, Virginia Rd
  Baptisms 1891-1899, 1904-1948, Marriages 1867-1947 : LMA
  Baptisms 1867-1891, 1899-1904 : Missing
  Baptisms 1948- date, Marriages 1947- date : Not deposited
• St. Peter, St. Peter's Ave
  Baptisms 1843-1911, Marriages 1843-1914, Burials 1843-1855 : LMA
  Baptisms 1911- date, Marriages 1914- date : Not deposited . Registers which have not already been deposited at the LMA are held at St
  John on Bethnal Green Church.
• St. Philip, Swanfield St
  Baptisms 1842-1946, Marriages 1843-1952 : LMA
• St. Simon Zelotes, Morpeth St
  Baptisms 1847-1951, Marriages 1847-1951 : LMA
• St. Thomas, Baroness Rd
  Baptisms 1848-1919, Marriages 1850-1911 : LMA
  Baptisms 1919-1947, Marriages 1911-1951 : Records with St. Peter
• Our Lady of the Assumption (Roman Catholic), Victoria Park Square
  Formed 1902
• Domestic Mission Chapel (Presbyterian), Spicer St / Mansford St
  Baptisms 1832- date : Not deposited
• Gibralter Burial Ground (Dissenters)
  Burials 1793-1837 : PRO
• Independent Chapel, Cambridge Rd
  Baptisms 1704-1755, 1771-1836, 1845-1858 : PRO
• Independent Chapel, Sydney St
  Baptisms 1846-1880 : PRO
• United Reformed Church (previously Congregational)
  1865-1895 : THL
• Victoria Park Congregational Chapel, Approach Rd
  Baptisms 1905-1950 : LMA
• Virginia Chapel (Independent)
  Baptisms 1825-1837 : PRO

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