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St Andrew, Holborn - marriage records indexing project

Engraving of St Andrew, Holborn looking south

Historical notes
See some historical notes about St Andrew and a parish map prepared about 1750.

Other parishes
British Origins has Boyds marriage indexes of many other London and Middlesex parishes online.

Project background

The church of St Andrew, Holborn is the largest of Wren's parish churches and stands at the western end of Holborn Viaduct by Holborn Circus. It also served one of the biggest parishes in London (it actually spanned the boundary of London and Middlesex) out of which five new parishes were eventually formed.

The registers are large and contain many thousands of entries, as the parish has always been a popular place to marry. More significantly, the entries from the marriage registers do not appear on the International Genealogical Index or in Boyd's Marriage Index. Pallot's Marriage index has entries for 1780-1837 but these give only year and omit many of the details from the original registers. It is for these reasons that the Society of Genealogists has decided to embark on the project to transcribe and index the registers.

The Society holds copies of the marriage registers on nine films:

First year	Last year	Comment	Film number
1559	1698	none	3864
1698	1754	none	3865
1754	1781	marriages by banns	3866
1754	1781	marriages by licence	3868
1781	1812	marriages by banns	3867
1781	1812	marriages by licence	3869
1813	1822	none	3870
1822	1832	none	3871
1822	1837	none	3872

Photocopies of these films are being used by volunteers inputting the data directly to a specially written computer program that is provided to them, free of charge. The Society of Genealogists is grateful for the permission of the Guildhall Library to obtain copies of the films and its encouragement in this project.

The project is led by Colin Allen under the guidance of Else Churchill. Anyone interested in taking part should contact Colin or Else at the Society.