Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex

Tree: 1. Essex Ennevers

Notes:
St. George’s is, as everybody knows, the work of Nicholas Hawksmore. It is one of the three churches he built in the old parish of Stepney under the Act for Building Fifty New Churches, introduced by the Tory Government of 1710. The other two are St. Anne’s, Limehouse, and Christ Church, Spitalfields. These three enormous white temples, presented by the State to a population of seafarers, rope-makers, ship’s chandlers and silk-weavers, stood in a landscape of damp meadows and pigmy russet hamlets. Then, as now, th_e churches must have seemed too noble, too sacerdotal for their neighbourhoods. The parishioners, one · imagines, would readily have accepted snug galleried boxes like the churches at Deptford and Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Woolwich, instead of accomplished and profound works of art. Hawksmore is not quite at home in the East End. Perhaps because of this, perhaps because he took architecture rather beyond the ken of the ordinary man, London has never accepted these proud, lonely churches among her great monuments. The strong element of fantasy (as strong and original as in Swift, Hawskmore’s nearest parallel in literature) has frightened the conventional critic. An absurd and demonstrably false theory that Hawksmore was a dullwitted offspring of Vanbrugh has misled the readers of text-books. And so when enemy assault tears out the vaults and columns of St. George’s, the fact is less noticed than the blasting of some indifferent ornament in one of the least masterly masterpieces of Sir Christopher Wren.

Tree: 8. Matthews/Newton (DNA match)

Notes:
St. George’s is, as everybody knows, the work of Nicholas Hawksmore. It is one of the three churches he built in the old parish of Stepney under the Act for Building Fifty New Churches, introduced by the Tory Government of 1710. The other two are St. Anne’s, Limehouse, and Christ Church, Spitalfields. These three enormous white temples, presented by the State to a population of seafarers, rope-makers, ship’s chandlers and silk-weavers, stood in a landscape of damp meadows and pigmy russet hamlets. Then, as now, th_e churches must have seemed too noble, too sacerdotal for their neighbourhoods. The parishioners, one · imagines, would readily have accepted snug galleried boxes like the churches at Deptford and Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Woolwich, instead of accomplished and profound works of art. Hawksmore is not quite at home in the East End. Perhaps because of this, perhaps because he took architecture rather beyond the ken of the ordinary man, London has never accepted these proud, lonely churches among her great monuments. The strong element of fantasy (as strong and original as in Swift, Hawskmore’s nearest parallel in literature) has frightened the conventional critic. An absurd and demonstrably false theory that Hawksmore was a dullwitted offspring of Vanbrugh has misled the readers of text-books. And so when enemy assault tears out the vaults and columns of St. George’s, the fact is less noticed than the blasting of some indifferent ornament in one of the least masterly masterpieces of Sir Christopher Wren.

Tree: 2. East End Ennevers

Notes:
St. George’s is, as everybody knows, the work of Nicholas Hawksmore. It is one of the three churches he built in the old parish of Stepney under the Act for Building Fifty New Churches, introduced by the Tory Government of 1710. The other two are St. Anne’s, Limehouse, and Christ Church, Spitalfields. These three enormous white temples, presented by the State to a population of seafarers, rope-makers, ship’s chandlers and silk-weavers, stood in a landscape of damp meadows and pigmy russet hamlets. Then, as now, th_e churches must have seemed too noble, too sacerdotal for their neighbourhoods. The parishioners, one · imagines, would readily have accepted snug galleried boxes like the churches at Deptford and Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Woolwich, instead of accomplished and profound works of art. Hawksmore is not quite at home in the East End. Perhaps because of this, perhaps because he took architecture rather beyond the ken of the ordinary man, London has never accepted these proud, lonely churches among her great monuments. The strong element of fantasy (as strong and original as in Swift, Hawskmore’s nearest parallel in literature) has frightened the conventional critic. An absurd and demonstrably false theory that Hawksmore was a dullwitted offspring of Vanbrugh has misled the readers of text-books. And so when enemy assault tears out the vaults and columns of St. George’s, the fact is less noticed than the blasting of some indifferent ornament in one of the least masterly masterpieces of Sir Christopher Wren.

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Christened

Matches 1 to 23 of 23

	Last name, First name(s)	Christened		Person ID	Tree
1	BOZIER, Alice Sarah Jennings	23 Jan 1853	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I21247	1. Essex Ennevers
2	COMMON, Charles Samuel	1 Apr 1888	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I6564	2. East End Ennevers
3	COMMON, Simon Robert	1 Dec 1839	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I6552	2. East End Ennevers
4	COMMONS, Jane Elizabeth	21 Dec 1873	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I34461	2. East End Ennevers
5	COMMONS, Lena Victoria	12 Jan 1890	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I34449	2. East End Ennevers
6	COMMONS, Robert James	30 Aug 1885	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I6563	2. East End Ennevers
7	ENEVER, Ann	26 Sep 1802	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I23139	1. Essex Ennevers
8	ENEVER, Martha	30 Sep 1798	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I23136	1. Essex Ennevers
9	ENNEVER, Emma	2 Oct 1878	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I2370	1. Essex Ennevers
10	ENNEVER, Minnie	2 Oct 1878	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I2190	1. Essex Ennevers
11	GARMS, Catherine Matilda	2 Oct 1861	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13334	1. Essex Ennevers
12	GARMS, Claus Henry	7 Jan 1855	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13331	1. Essex Ennevers
13	GARMS, Lüer John	25 Aug 1844	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13332	1. Essex Ennevers
14	GARMS, Mary Ann	7 Jan 1855	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13333	1. Essex Ennevers
15	GARMS, Peter Lear Frederick	3 Jun 1838	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I12339	1. Essex Ennevers
16	HOLMES, Ann Enever	4 Aug 1839	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I20974	1. Essex Ennevers
17	HOUSE, Esther Julia	16 May 1880	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13975	1. Essex Ennevers
18	HOUSE, Mary Ann	16 May 1880	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13980	1. Essex Ennevers
19	HOUSE, William Richard	16 May 1880	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13979	1. Essex Ennevers
20	ROBINSON, Robert John	31 Dec 1865	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I36668	8. Matthews/Newton (DNA match)
21	STILL, Mary Ann	17 Feb 1889	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I17228	2. East End Ennevers
22	TILLIDUFF, Joseph Samuel	18 Aug 1811	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I27392	1. Essex Ennevers
23	WOONTON, Charles	17 Feb 1833	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I1173	1. Essex Ennevers

Buried

Matches 1 to 4 of 4

	Last name, First name(s)	Buried		Person ID	Tree
1	GARMS, George James	4 May 1843	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13337	1. Essex Ennevers
2	GARMS, Mary Ann	8 Feb 1839	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13336	1. Essex Ennevers
3	GARMS, Peter Lear Frederick	13 Feb 1839	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I12339	1. Essex Ennevers
4	GARMS, Peter Lüer Thomas	6 Oct 1844	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I13335	1. Essex Ennevers

Living

Matches 1 to 1 of 1

	Last name, First name(s)	Living		Person ID	Tree
1	GARMS, Peter	2 Oct 1861	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	I12340	1. Essex Ennevers

Married

Matches 1 to 9 of 9

	Family (spouse)	Married		Family ID	Tree
1	ALMEROTH / NICHOLLS	3 Jan 1848	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F1992	1. Essex Ennevers
2	COMMON / HUMMERSTON	27 Aug 1862	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F11178	2. East End Ennevers
3	DOD / VINER	22 Aug 1841	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F3864	1. Essex Ennevers
4	JURY / ORTON	10 Aug 1845	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F9763	1. Essex Ennevers
5	MARSTON / DUBOIS	9 Sep 1848	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F9866	1. Essex Ennevers
6	PAMMENT / ENEVER	12 Sep 1885	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F6381	1. Essex Ennevers
7	THOMAS / COX	14 Sep 1845	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F1142	2. East End Ennevers
8	VICKSTROM / COMMON	24 Apr 1872	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F11173	2. East End Ennevers
9	VINER / READ	25 Nov 1800	Parish Church, St George in the East, Middlesex	F1185	1. Essex Ennevers