The registers are still kept at the church and
are available for personal research for a fee
of £15 for the first hour, and £12 for any subsequent
hour, as set out in the Table of Parochial Fees
prepared by the Archbishops' Council.
Should you wish a member of the St Giles staff
to undertake a search of your behalf - there is
an additional fee of £7.00 per hour. Generally,
the more precise information that can be given
the more chance of a successful search. To arrange
a search, contact
us.
The London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton
Road, London EC1R OHB (Tel: 020 7332 3820) holds
copies of the registers on micro-film, which can
be inspected free of charge.
Some of the distinguished people who lived in
the parish who were:
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John Okey
1606 |
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(regicide
- signatory to Charles I's death warrant)
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Mary Milton
1647 |
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(daughter
of John Milton, poet) |
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Katherine Sedley
1657 |
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(Countess
of Dorchester, mistress of James II) |
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Anne Jefferys
1686 |
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(daughter
of Judge Jefferys) |
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John Vanderbank
1694 |
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(painter) |
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Henry Pelham
1694 |
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(Prime Minister) |
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Admiral Lord
Rodney 1718/1719 |
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William Shelley
Clara Everina Shelley
1818 |
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(children
of Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet) |
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Clara Allegra
Clairmont
1818 |
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(daughter
of Lord Byron, poet) |
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John Coleridge
Patteson
1827 |
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(the murdered
Bishop of Melanesia) |
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Adrian Scroope
1624 |
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(regicide
37th signatory to Charles I's death warrant) |
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Sir Thomas Richardson
1626 |
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(speaker
to the House of Commons) |
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Lord John Lovelace
and Lady Anne Wentworth
1638 |
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Ferdinando,
Lord Fairfax,
and Rhoda Hussie
1646 |
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(general) |
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Sir Charles Sedley,
and Lady Savage
1657 |
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(dramatist) |
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Wenceslas Hollar
1653 |
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(engraver) |
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Sir William Temple,
and Mrs Dorothy Osborne
1654/5 |
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(statesman
and author) |
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William Wake
1681 |
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(Archbishop
of Canterbury) |
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Sir George Treby
1685 |
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(negotiator
of Bill of Rights) |
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David Garrick,
and Eva Maria Violetti
1749 |
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(actor) |
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Michael Arne
1773 |
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( conductor,
son of Dr Arne) |
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Frances Kemble
1786 |
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(actress,
Mrs Siddons signed as a witness) |
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John Philip Kemble,
and Priscilla Brereton
1787 |
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(actor) |
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George Chapman
1634 |
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(poet, translater
of Homer) |
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Lord Herbert
of Cherbury
1648 |
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(philosopher) |
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Philip Stanhope
1656 |
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(1st Earl
of Chesterfield, royalist) |
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Lady Mary Gifford
1664 |
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(the "Lady
of Boscobel") |
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Sir Thomas Widdrington
1664 |
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(speaker
to the House of Commons) |
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James Shirley
1666 |
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(dramatist) |
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Claude Duval
1669/70 |
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(highwayman
- executed) |
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Richard Pendrell
1671 |
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(preserver
of the life of Charles II at Boscobel) |
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Isaac Fuller
1672 |
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(painter) |
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Cecil, second
Lord Baltimore
1675 |
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(1st Proprietory
of Maryland, USA) |
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Andrew Marvell
1678 |
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(politician
and poet) |
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Thomas Whitbread
William Harcourt
John Gavan
Anthony Turner
John Fenwick
1678 |
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Jesuits
executed, after the Titus Oates' plot |
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Edward Coleman
1678 |
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(conspirator,
secretary to Mary of Modena. Executed) |
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Oliver Plunkett
1681 |
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(RC Archbishop
of Armagh, Executed, Exhumed.) |
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Sir Heneage Finch
1682 |
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(Lord Chancellor) |
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Sir John Finch
1682 |
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(Ambassador
and Physician) |
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Dr John Pell
1685 |
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(mathematician,
inventor of the ÷ sign) |
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Lord Belasyse
1689 |
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(royalist) |
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Lord Arundell
of Wardour
1694 |
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(conspirator,
accused by Titus Oates) |
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Henry Tilson
1695 |
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(painter) |
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Edward du Bois
1696 |
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(painter) |
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Dr Bernard Connor
1698 |
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(King of
Poland's physician) |
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Sir Charles Sedley
1702 |
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(dramatist) |
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Anna Maria, Countess
of Shrewsbury |
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(mistress
of Buckingham) |
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Robert White
1703 |
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(engraver) |
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Sir Roger L'Estrange
1704 |
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(last public
censor) |
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Ralph, Duke of
Montagu
1709 |
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(statesman) |
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Philip, 2nd Earl
of Chesterfield
1713 |
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(royalist,
patron of Dryden) |
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
1723 |
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(painter) |
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Thomas Harley
1730 |
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(Sheriff
of Middlesex, opponent of John Wilkes) |
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Charles Radcliffe
1746 |
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(titular,
Earl of Derwentwater, rebel of 1715, Jacobite) |
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Paul Rimbault
1785 |
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(clockmaker) |
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Dr William Balmain
1803 |
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(physician,
co-founder of New South Wales) |
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Sir Souldon Lawrence
1814 |
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(judge) |
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Athur William
Devis
1822 |
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(historical
painter) |
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John Flaxman
1826 |
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(sculptor) |
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Luke Hansard
1828 |
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(printer
to the House of Commons) |
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Thomas Earnshaw
1829 |
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(watch and
chronometer maker) |
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Sir John Soane
1837 |
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(architect) |