London geography Q

[Merry]

BK6 updated from this thread

If a relative says he was b in the parish of St George the Martyr, Middlesex is there any way I can determine if one parish is more likely than another?

I looked at the LMA records and saw there's one church described as St George the Martyr, Queens Square, Camden, another at Battersea and a third at Southwark. No doubt there are others! lol

I'm just wondering which records I should investigate first?

[kiterunner]

Southwark and Battersea would be Surrey, not Middlesex, so we can rule those out. Camden was in Middlesex.

[kiterunner]

But looking at GENUKI and Google, and remembering you said the people you're researching at the moment came from Bloomsbury, it will be St George the Martyr, Queen Square, Holborn. I can't do a link because I'm on the pocketsurfer. It might come under Pancras.

[maggie_4_7]

It comes under Camden I work just across the road from there in Red Lion Square.

Its Holborn.

[kiterunner]

Ah, it is the one listed as Camden on ancestry.

[Merry]

Thanks very much, both of you!

*prepares to search* :D

[Merry]

Ooooohhhhh......Camden, St George The Martyr, Queen Square, 1797-1812

First hit......

Page 6 of 39:

27th Jan 1799 James Wallis, son of James and Sarah Millwood, Fisher Street

*dances about in happy circles* :D:d:D:d:D:d

and the writing is really easy - two different hands so far - fingers crossed it stays this way!!

[maggie_4_7]

Well done.

:)

[Merry]

*worries that Wallis is Sarah's maiden name when it should be Maynard!*

Image 13 of 39:

14th Feb 1802 James son of James and Sarah Millwood (born 31st Dec 1801)

[Uncle John]

It comes under Camden I work just across the road from there in Red Lion Square.

Yonks ago I used to work in Procter House, just down the road. I haven't been back for years and was most surprised to see on the Seety street view that it's been seriously tarted up.

[Merry]

Image 17 of 39

25th Sept 1803 William son of James and Sarah Millwood

This could possibly be the bap of the only member of this family I've found who lived up to 1851! In 1851 he was 40, but in 1861 he was 54, so almost possible unless there's another William I've not got to yet.

No more in those 39 pages, so will be working back from 1796 tomorrow.

[Merry]

Just telling myself I need to start with image 148 tomorrow!

[Merry]

Hmmm, was just feeling frustrated because the handwriting has gone from excellent to very spidery and no more Millwoods yet, when I found this:

28th July 1793 Mary Ann the daughter of Robert and Mary Ann McCrery

The father of this baby is the first cousin of the mother of the Millwood children I'm hoping to find.

This baptism fits nicely into a five year gap I had between sons two and three of six and means they had a daughter! I expect she died in childhood though, as did four of the sons :(.

I haven't found any burial records for this church yet.

[Merry]

Have gone back to the start of 1790 (image 126) and have not found any more Millwood baptisms, the earliest one being Jan 1799 at present. Am thinking I am probably not going to find the baps of Elizabeth and Sarah now (may go back another five years just to be certain), so will have to decide what to do next.

There are no burial or marriage entries for this parish available that are late enough to be relevant to my search. :(

Lunch break.

[Uncle John]

Do you make a habit of talking to yourself?

[Merry]

Yes.

But it's better keeping notes here than on bits of paper!

[Uncle John]

True.

[Merry]

Oooh,

St Marylebone, Westminster 1805-1810
Image 41 of 189

26th Oct 1806 John Millwood son of James and Mary Millwood, born 25th Sept