Poplar All Saints Middlesex Family History Guide

Poplar All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1817 from a chapelry in Stepney St Dunstan Ancient Parish; located on East India Dock Road.

Other places in the parish include: Blackwall.

Alternative names: All Saints Poplar, Poplar

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1711
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

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Adjacent Parishes

Deptford St Paul, Kent & Surrey
West Greenwich, Kent
Plaistow St Mary, Essex
Deptford St Nicholas, Kent
Bromley, Middlesex
West Ham, Essex
East Greenwich Christ Church, Kent
Rotherhithe Holy Trinity, Surrey
Limehouse St Anne, Middlesex
Greenwich St Alfege, Kent

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

POPLAR, a parish and a district in Middlesex. The parish is part of the metropolis; lies on the river Thames, between the Limehouse and the Blackwall reaches, 4 miles E of St. Paul’s.

It includes the Isle of Dogs and Blackwall, extending to the influx of the river Lea; is traversed by the Blackwall railway; was given, by William of Wyke-ham, to St. Mary de Grace abbey at Tower Hill; was held by Charles I., when Prince of Wales; formed part of Stepney parish till 1817; was ecclesiastically cut into Poplar-All Saints and Poplar-Christchurch in 1860; contains the West India docks, the East India docks, and numerous small or private docks.

It constitutes a prominent section of the port of London, with large warehouses and other port appliances; carries on ship-building, chain cable-making, steam factory work, wire rope-making, and other employments suited to the wants of a great port; has, for many years, undergone great and various improvements; contains a town hall, three churches, the East India Company’s chapel, a number of dissenting chapels of various denominations, the sailors’ home and chapel, two endowed schools with £240 and £24 a year, four other public schools, three suites of alms-houses, a workhouse, and aggregate charities of £379, besides a share in some at Stepney; and has stations with telegraphs on the Blackwall railway, post-offices and postal pillar-boxes under London E, and a K police station.

The town hall was built in 1770, on the site of a previous one; and contains a portrait of the philanthropic ship-builder Green. All Saints church was built in 1821-3, at a cost of £33,077; and has a tower and spire 161 feet high. Christchurch was built in 1860. St. Stephen’s church was built in 1866. The East India Company’s chapel was originally built in 1650-4; was rebuilt at a comparatively recent period; and contains monuments of the heralds Dethicks, the lexicographer Ainsworth, the Shakespearian commentator Stevens, and two Ridleys, father and son, one of them the author of “Tales of the Genii.”

Two Independent chapels date from 1812 and 1814. One Wesleyan chapel dates from 1780; and another, in the decorated English style, was built in 1848, at a cost of £7, 350. The work-house is spacious; and, at the census of 1861, had 488 inmates. The parish comprises 1,185 acres of land, and 305 of water. Real property, £224,953.

Pop. in 1851, 28, 384; in 1861, 43, 529. Houses, 5, 868. Pop. of the Christchurch section, in 1861, 8, 579. Houses, 1,097.

The living of All Saints is a rectory, and the livings of Christchurch and the East India chapel are p. curacies, in the diocese of London. Value of A. S., £632; of C., £300; of E. I. chapel, £500. Patron of A. S., Brasenose College, Oxford; of C., the Bishop of London; of E. I. chapel, the Secretary of State for India.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

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Administration

County: Middlesex
Civil Registration District: Poplar
Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
Diocese: London
Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
Poor Law Union: Poplar
Hundred: Ossulstone (Tower Division)
Province: Canterbury