SAINT OLAVE, STOKE NEWINGTON: WOODBERRY DOWN, HACKNEY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 P94/OLA
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SAINT OLAVE, STOKE NEWINGTON: WOODBERRY DOWN, HACKNEY
Date(s)	: 1893-1968
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.85 linear metres (9 files).
Name of creator(s)	: Parish of St Olave, Stoke Newington | Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The church of Saint Olave was constructed in 1894, using funds from the demolition of the City church of Saint Olave, Old Jewry. The seventeenth century pulpit and font were transferred from the former Saint Olave. The parish had been established in 1892, and was enlarged in 1951.

From: 'Stoke Newington: Churches', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 204-211.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Olave, Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, comprising register of baptisms; registers of marriages; register of confirmations and register of banns.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records have been sorted into categories which reflect divisions between the different functions and operations of the parish and its administration. Order within these categories reflects chronology.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Parish Registers of St. Olave, Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, deposited in the Greater London Record Office by the Incumbent, 15 June 1987.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
April to June 2010.