Stamford Hill St Thomas Middlesex Family History Guide

Stamford Hill St Thomas is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1828 from Hackney St John Ancient Parish; located on Clapton Common.

Alternative names: Hackney St Thomas

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1827
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1827

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Protestant Dissenters.

Adjacent Parishes

• Tottenham Holy Trinity
• Walthamstow St James, Essex
• Hackney St John
• Stoke Newington St Mary
• West Hackney
• Leyton, Essex

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STAMFORD-HILL, a chapelry in Hackney-St. John parish, Middlesex; on Ermine-street, around Upper Clapton, near the North London and the Great Eastern railways, 3½ miles NNE of St. Paul’s, London. It was constituted in 1828; it has a post-office of Upper Clapton under London, NE; and it abounds with villas, and is a rich and healthy metropolitan suburb. Pop. in 1851, 5,483. Houses, 999. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, £207. Patron, the Rector of Hackney-St. John. The church was built in 1850, at a cost of £8,700.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Middlesex, Stamford-Hill – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census index series
Author: East of London Family History Society; London & North Middlesex Family History Society

England, Middlesex, Stamford-Hill – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers of St. Thomas’ Church, Stamford Hill, 1827-1935
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ Church (Stamford Hill,Middlesex)

England, Middlesex, Stamford-Hill – Directories ( 2 )
Kelly’s Directory of Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill and Upper and Lower Clapton

Kelly’s Highbury, Holloway and Tufnell Park directory : the work comprises alphabetical lists of streets, private inhabitants, and tradesmen ..

Administration

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