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Stepney Register Office
« on: Friday 08 May 20 11:38 BST (UK) »
Just a quick question aimed at anyone who may have a better knowledge of East London history then me!
My grandparents were married in 1939 and on their wedding certificate it names their place of marriage as The Register Office, district of Stepney. I'm trying to find a picture of the actual building but when I google search Register Office it just brings up pictures of the Tower Hamlets Register office. Was this the same place?? I get confused with London districts and what was where??

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #1 on: Friday 08 May 20 12:49 BST (UK) »
Hi,

This may help
https://www.eolfhs.org.uk/registeroffices/

Scroll down to Tower Hamlets it then gives details of areas  it containes

There is also a connection to use - not tried.

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #2 on: Friday 08 May 20 12:58 BST (UK) »
I’ve found a 1934 newspaper marriage notice saying that the ceremony took place at “the Arbour-square Register Office, Stepney”.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #3 on: Friday 08 May 20 15:03 BST (UK) »
Quote from: spendlove on Friday 08 May 20 12:49 BST (UK)
Hi,

This may help
https://www.eolfhs.org.uk/registeroffices/

Scroll down to Tower Hamlets it then gives details of areas  it containes

There is also a connection to use - not tried.

Spendlove
It did thank you, it has former RD for Stepney under the Tower Hamlets Register office so assuming the register Office did move after 1939.

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #4 on: Friday 08 May 20 15:05 BST (UK) »
Quote from: avm228 on Friday 08 May 20 12:58 BST (UK)
I’ve found a 1934 newspaper marriage notice saying that the ceremony took place at “the Arbour-Square Register Office, Stepney”.
I googled this, found arbour square gardens and Saint Thomas' in arbour square. I don't know if this would have been the same building? It just says 'The Register Office' on the marriage cert.

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #5 on: Friday 08 May 20 16:14 BST (UK) »
1939 PO London Directory
Superintendent Registrars & Registrars in London
Stepney
Office, East Arbour street, E1.
Sup. Registrar—George Herbert Hawes ; hours for marriages,
8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Registrars of Marriages attached

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #6 on: Friday 08 May 20 16:37 BST (UK) »
London Telephone Directory, May 1939
L-Z
Stepney Register Office
25 East Arbour st E.1

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #7 on: Friday 08 May 20 16:54 BST (UK) »
1939 Street Directory
What number is it here?

Back in 1925
25 East Arbour street was the Prince of Wales, landlord Robert Aarons

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Re: Stepney Register Office
« Reply #8 on: Friday 08 May 20 16:58 BST (UK) »
1894 Ordnance Survey
Is that the same pub at 25, opposite the Thames Police Court?
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.51575&lon=-0.04753&layers=163&b=1

switch to 1948, no numbers there - bomb damage??
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.51560&lon=-0.04751&layers=170&b=1
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