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    1. [HWE] Threadneedle Street & St. Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange Churches
    2. Andrea Vogel
    3. Listers -- here's something interesting I have discovered to add to info already known about the Threadneedle Street Church in London. On the LDS web site (www.familysearch.org), listings for records of the Threadneedle Street Church are cross-referenced with another London church, called St. Bartholomew by the (Royal) Exchange which also seems to have been known as St. Bartholomew the Less Church. There is no explanation given for this cross-referencing but I can only guess that members of the Threadneedle St. congregation also, at times, attended St. Bartholomew's (which was Church of England, ie. Anglican), especially once assimilation had begun. So, anyone knowing of ancestors who attended Threadneedle might want to also check the records of St. Bartholomew's. Here are the records listed for St. Bartholomew's on the LDS site -- 1) St. Batholomew's Parish registers 1558-1840. Original manuscripts are in the Guildhall Library, London. Has also been filmed by LDS, as follows -- Film # 374423 -- Baptisms, marriages, burials 1558-1737 Film # 374424 -- Baptisms 1723-1810, 1813-1840 Marriages 1723-1840 Burials 1723-1838 Banns 1754-1840 Film # 568047 -- Baptisms, marriages, burials 1814-1831 Notes with this listing seem to indicate that St. Batholomew's has, at some point, been "united" with the Church of St. Margaret Lothbury. No further info known about this but perhaps this is another church to also check. 2) St. Bartholomew's Bishop's Transcripts (BT's),1800-1812. Original manuscript held at the Guildhall Library, London. Also on LDS film # 396217. 3) Historical notices of the Church of St. Bartholomew-by-the-Royal-Exchange compiled by Henry GWYN, partially indexed. Microfilm of original manuscript located at the Guildhall Library in London. The contents include: Register transcripts of St. Bartholomew (the Less), baptisms,1558-1711; miscellaneous notes; marriages, burials, 1558-1711; monumental inscriptions and church notes; rectors and benefactors, etc. Also on LDS film # 535704. 4) Book: On the parish books of St. Margaret-Lothbury, St. Christopher-le-Stocks, and St. Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, in the city of London by Edwin FRESHFIELD. Microfilm copy located at the Society of Genealogists in London. Also on LDS film # 454060. 5) The Vestry minute books of the parish of St. Bartholomew Exchange in the city of London, 1567-1676, edited by Edwin FRESHFIELD, published: London, Rixon and Arnold, 1890,135 pgs. Also on LDS film # 454058. 6) St. Bartholomew's is also cross-referenced in these listings to yet another church -- that of St. Martin Orgar French Protestant Church of Martin Lane, Cannon Street, London with the added comment "afterwards at Threadneedle Street". Which possibly means that this church was merged with the congregation at Threadneedle Street at some point. Records for St. Martin Orgar include births & baptisms 1690-1762 and marriages 1698-1751. Also on LDS film # 466709. Hope this is of interest to our Threadneedle researchers. Andrea

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