St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street Burials

[MatthewJ]

Hello,

I am looking for burials in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, on and around the year 1808. However, I can't see anywhere that I can access them. The recordset in Ancestry's browsable collection for this parish that ends in 1810 actually ends around 1796 for burials. I thought that maybe burials stopped after this date, but I have since found a website that has transcriptions from 1813-53, so I assume burials were still taking place in 1808. If anyone is able to point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful.

Thanks,

Matthew

[Valda]

Hi

Until these images come online on Ancestry the only place to check for the original register is with the Guildhall Library in the City of London

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Libraries/City_of_London_libraries/guildhall_lib.htm

As you will see from the topic on the London and Middlesex board

LMA/Ancestry "Missing" Parishes


http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,430983.0.html


There is still much work to be done by Ancestry to complete the parish registers post 1813 for burials and baptisms and 1754 for marriages besides beginning serious transcription work on earlier registers and images.


Regards

Valda

[dawnsh]

Hi Matthew

I was at the LMA yesterday and asked where the images were, their reply corresponds with the info that Valda has given, but they are going to check that they have not been mis-labelled and are actually there but under a different parish name 

The originals are at the Guildhall Library, but available on microfilm at the LMA, who are you trying to find?

Dawn

[MatthewJ]

Hi,

Thank you both for your replies. Hopefully they will turn up on Ancestry in time then. The person I am trying to find is named Bruton Robins. I think he died February/March 1808. He his younger children were baptised in this parish as late as 1803, and he still lived in this area when he died.

Thanks,

Matthew

[dawnsh]

From the burial register of St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street with St Martin Ludgate

1808

Bruton Robins Church Vault (age) 44 years (on) February 22nd

Dawn

[MatthewJ]

Hi Dawn,

Thank you very much for that; it is really appreciated. Do you have any idea how common it would be for people to be interred in this church's vault?

Thanks,

Matthew

[dawnsh]

Not very common, it cost a lot more to be interred in the vaults. And there was the added expense of a lead lined coffin.

Dawn

[MatthewJ]

Thank you for all of your help Dawn. Is it likely that there will be any other records pertaining to this burial; if it was an uncommon event?

Thanks,

Matthew

[dawnsh]

I don't think so, vault and churchyard burials were all entered in the same register.

'If' the vault has been cleared subsequently, as they have done at St Marylebone, there 'may' be other documentary evidence elsewhere.

What are you hoping to find?

Dawn