| CHURCH RECORDS Christ Church Gore Rd Baptisms 1872-1953 Marriages 1872-1953: LMA City of London Union Chapel Homerton Baptisms 1884-1886: LMA Eastern Fever Hospital Baptisms 1888-1938: LMA Harbour Light Free Methodist Chapel Goldsmiths Row Baptisms 1897-1944: LMA Independent Chapel Well St Baptisms 1837: PRO Metropolitan Hospital Hackney Baptisms 1909-1915: PRO Old Gravel Pit Meeting House (Independent) Baptisms 1802-1837: PRO | Hackney
is situated about 3 miles northeast of Whitechapel on the west bank of
the river Lea and was originally in the County of Middlesex. For many
centuries this was a green and pleasant land with views stretching for
miles. The village was long and scattered along the road which runs from Mile End to Stamford Hill. Midway along this road was the village centre with its parish church. During the 15th and 16th centuries, villages in close proximity to London began to grow in importance as places where nobility and rich merchants could build their homes. In the 17th and 18th centuries Hackney was regarded as a healthy and agreeable environment and gained a reputation with its pleasure gardens. The parish church of St. John at Hackney was built in 1792-7 by James Spiller in the shape of a Greek cross to hold 4,000 people. This replaced the old church of St. Augustine whose 16th tower still stands to the south. At the beginning of the 19th century it was still quite rural, with central and northern Hackney mainly occupied with nursery gardening but industries growing to the south and east. Clothing, boot and shoe making and furniture being the main occupations. Over the next century the population swelled to over 200,000 and with the exception of a few parks all the rural areas had disappeared under bricks and mortar. In 1965 Hackney joined with Shoreditch and Stoke Newington to form the London Borough of Hackney. | |
| Pleasant Place Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist) Baptisms 1818-1837: PRO Presbyterian Chapel Mare St Burials 1812-1837: PRO St Augustine Victoria Park Baptisms 1868-1945 Marriages 1868-1945: LMA St Barnabas Shacklewell West Hackney Baptisms 1890-1921 Marriages 1929-1954: LMA St James the Great Lower Clapton Rd Baptisms 1841-1962 Marriages 1864-1972: LMA St John at Hackney Lower Clapton Rd Baptisms 1556-1952 Marriages 1590-1968 Burials 1593-1933: LMA Baptisms 1952- date Mariages 1968- date: Not deposited St John of Jerusalem Lauriston Rd Baptisms 1826-1957 Marriages 1831-1986 Burials 1831-1924: LMA St John the Baptist (Roman Catholic) Mare St Baptisms 1856- date Marriages 1856- date: Not deposited St Luke Homerton Terrace Baptisms 1872-1968 Marriages 1874-1944: LMA Baptisms 1968- date Marriages 1944- date: Not deposited | St Martin's Mission Church Ada St Baptisms 1907-1932: LMA St Mary of Eaton Hackney Wick Baptisms 1881-1964 Marriages 1893-1964: LMA St Michael and All Angels Lansdowne Drive Baptisms 1865-1930 Marriages 1865-1965: LMA Baptisms 1930- date Marriages 1965- date: Not deposited St Paul's Mission See West Hackney Church St Peter Northchurch Terrace De Beauvoir Town Baptisms 1842-1938 Marriages 1863-1969: LMA Baptisms 1938- date Marriages 1969- date: Not deposited St Thomas Square Chapel (Presbyterian) Mare St Baptisms 1765-1837 Burials 1787-1876: PRO Baptisms 1814-1898 Marriages 1838-1848: HAD Wesleyan Chapel Cassland Rd Marriages 1900-1940: LMA Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Hackney Wick Marriages 1909-1935: LMA West Hackney Church & St. Paul's Mission Stoke Newington Road Baptisms 1824-1933 Marriages 1824-1959 Burials 1824-1888: LMA |