All Hallows’ parish registers date back to 1558, the first year of Elizabeth I’s reign, and are divided into fifteen volumes, as follows:

Volume I: Baptisms and Marriages 1558–1624; Burials 1558–1619

Volume II: Baptisms March 1625–October 1678; Marriages March 1625–April 1679; Burials March 1620–September 1676 (this Volume is labelled 1625–1659)

Volume III: Baptisms March 1676–October 1725; Marriages 1676–March 1754; Burials 1675–1719 (there is some overlap with Vol. II in the earliest years)

Volume IV: Baptisms November 1725–September 1787; Burials November 1719–September 1787

Volume V: Marriages, with Banns interspersed, October 1754–November 1760

Volume VI: Marriages November 1760–October 1770; Banns November 1760–June 1776

Volume VII: Marriages November 1770–December 1780; Banns September 1776–October 1780 (20 pages blank)

Volume VIII: Baptisms October 1787–March 1812

Volume IX: Marriages February 1781–September 1801; Banns February 1781–September 1801 (10 pages blank)

Volume X: Burials October 1787–December 1812; Baptisms March 1812–December 1812

Volume XI: Marriages September 1801–December 1812; September 1801–December 1816 (about half the volume blank)

Volume XII: Marriages February 1813–June 1837 (No further Banns books are preserved till long after 1837)

Volume XIII: Baptisms January 1813–December 1828

Volume XIV: Baptisms 1828–1858

Volume XV: Burials January 1813–March 1838

Unfortunately, only the marriages have been fully transcribed (Phillimore 1938), which means that I shall not be able to put baptisms and burials on to this website for at least another year. I shall have to apply for permission to look at the originals, and, although I can’t see any obvious reason why this should be denied me, I work more or less full time as a supply teacher, which means I shan’t be able to make fully effective use of it until next July.

Looking on the bright side, the marriage registers are more than usually informative, and, with the Monumental Inscriptions, allow one to get a clear picture of the folk who lived in Tottenham 400 years ago.

A note on the dating—until 1752, when it fell into line with most other countries in Europe, England followed the old Julian calendar, with the new year commencing on Lady Day (March 25). There are three ways of representing this—to make the year March 25 to March 24 (as Phillimore does); to convert dates to the Gregorian calendar (so that February 1st 1610, say, becomes February 1st 1611); or to use the convention of (say again) February 1st 1610/1611. Although the last is undeniably clumsy, it does have the very considerable merit of removing all possibility of confusion, and so I have adopted it.

Please excuse the iffy quality of the photos — I hope to replace them with better ones soon.