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WJ Ennever (1869-1947). From the portrait by J Seymour R.A., exhibited in the Royal Academy.

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Notes: People have lived in what we now call Stepney since about a thousand years before the birth of Christ. It is thought that the first church was built here sometime between St Augustine's conversion of the English in the 6th century, and 952 when a second church was erected on the site by St Dunstan.

The first church was probably wooden, and dedicated to All Saints, but it is thought that St Dunstan built his church here in stone. No part of this original structure survives, apart from a tenth century stone relief panel of the Crucifixion, which you can see under the east window.

Some time after St Dunstan was made a saint in 1029, the church was rededicated to him. In 1896 the ancient dedication of All Saints was revived, and the two names have been used together ever since.

In the middle ages, Stepney became a favoured country retreat for lords and merchants. St Dunstan's became a place of wealth and importance. It was in this period that the building took its present shape, with the chancel built in the thirteenth century and the nave in the fifteenth.

Stepney was in the heart of intellectual life during the Reformation of the sixteenth century. John Colet, Dean of St Pauls and St Dunstan's most famous vicar, was one of the leading scholars of the "new learning" from which the Reformation sparing. His friends Erasmus and Thomas More were regular visitors to his Stepney mansion.

This mansion was the home of Thomas Cromwell from 1534 and it was from here that he masterminded the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Successive rectors were staunch supporters of the new Protestantism, and the parish was staunchly Parliamentarian during the Civil War.

The population of London's East End grew hugely in the next two centuries, and in the eighteenth century the parish was split, with new churches built in such areas as Bethnal Green, Spitalfields and Limehouse, to minister to the vast numbers of people who now sought work in local industries.

By Victorian times, Stepney had a reputation as one of the worst slums in London. Successive rectors ministered tirelessly for the poor of the parish. In the second world war, the church miraculously escaped the Blitz that devasted houses all around it, losing only its windows.

Today's St Dunstan's is still a vibrant community of faith. Visitors comment on the remarkable spiritual atmosphere: here burdens are shared and the faithful gather to be nourished and fed in the Eucharist, going out into the community as instruments of God's love.

Our patron saint was probably the most powerful and influential churchman in England before the Norman Conquest.

Born in Baltonsborough, Somerset, in the early tenth century, Dunstan was educated at the nearby Glastonbury Abbey, where he later became Abbot. He was Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Edgar the Peaceable. Under Dunstan's patronage, art and learning flourished.

He was a monk, statesman and monastic reformer with a firm belief in the spiritual value of manual labour, which he put into practice himself by working metal.

You can see Dunstan's symbol, a pair of tongs, in one of the modern stone spandrels over the west door of our church. According to legend, the Devil came to tempt Dunstan as he worked at his anvil and the saint tweaked his nose with red-hot pincers.

Courtesy of http://www.stdunstanstepney.org
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Christened

Matches 1 to 34 of 34

	Last name, First name(s)	Christened		Person ID
1	ALLARS, William Henry	22 Oct 1843	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I5405
2	ANSELL, John William	2 Oct 1859	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I2082
3	BUCKNELL, Hannah	8 Nov 1818	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I15075
4	BUCKNELL, Jane Ann	24 Aug 1814	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I20581
5	COCHRANE, Elizabeth Eliza	19 Nov 1876	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I593
6	DYKE, Joseph Edward	6 Dec 1830	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I7507
7	ELSON, Ann Elizabeth	24 Aug 1849	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I1032
8	ENEVER, Ann Catharine	24 Feb 1828	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I15090
9	ENEVER, Catharine Charlotte	17 Feb 1833	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I15092
10	ENEVER, Frederick Henry	21 Mar 1880	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I14801
11	ENEVER, Frederick John	23 May 1824	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I15088
12	ENEVER, Harriet	20 Oct 1831	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I23701
13	ENEVER, Jessie Sarah Lee	24 Jan 1854	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I14368
14	ENEVER, Robert Francis Freeman	1 Aug 1830	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I15091
15	ENEVER, William James	12 Dec 1875	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I14804
16	ENNEVER, John	13 Mar 1774	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I38
17	HARROLD, John	20 Oct 1845	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I3790
18	HARROLD, Maria Jane	16 Oct 1842	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I1041
19	HENEVER, Harriett Louisa	7 Oct 1877	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I14809
20	HODGINS, Bella	10 Dec 1876	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I4701
21	HODGINS, Eliza	29 Aug 1869	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I4699
22	HODGINS, Ellen Matilda	26 Nov 1865	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I4696
23	HODGINS, Henry	20 Sep 1874	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I4700
24	HODGINS, Rosetta	26 Jan 1879	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I319
25	HODGINS, Susan	20 Apr 1873	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I29604
26	HODGINS, William	17 Oct 1866	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I4697
27	HOLMES, Charles Benjamin	8 Jun 1828	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I20991
28	HOLMES, William Matthew	19 Mar 1826	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I20993
29	HUTCHINGS, Alice	27 Oct 1850	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I21857
30	PALMER, Anne Alice	11 Mar 1855	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I15098
31	PUGH, George	3 Dec 1820	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I1337
32	PUGH, William Moore	21 Nov 1830	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I3461
33	REED, James George	15 Aug 1827	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I5258
34	SHERROTT, Teresa Ann	8 Jan 1843	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I136

Buried

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	Last name, First name(s)	Buried		Person ID
1	BUCKNELL, Robert	26 Jun 1842	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I15085
2	PRICE, Sarah	17 Dec 1837	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I20631

Witness

Matches 1 to 2 of 2

	Last name, First name(s)	Witness		Person ID
1	HOLMES, Sarah Anne	9 Oct 1854	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I20994
2	HUDSON, Charlotte	27 Jun 1818	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	I30207

Married

Matches 1 to 22 of 22

	Family (spouse)	Married		Family ID
1	ANSELL / ROBERTS	8 Apr 1861	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F663
2	BENNETT / HOLMES	24 Apr 1852	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F6529
3	BIRCHELL / INCE	1 Sep 1844	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F10328
4	BOYTON / MORTLOCK	2 Jan 1838	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F862
5	BROWN / ENEVER	31 May 1821	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F5076
6	BUCKNELL / GODSELL	1 Jun 1825	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F6789
7	CLAUSON / SPREADBOROUGH	29 Apr 1833	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F1450
8	COOPER / ENNEVER	1 Jul 1793	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F690
9	ENEVER / HARRINGTON	31 Oct 1825	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F4221
10	ENNEVER / JACOBS	26 Sep 1793	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F160
11	ENNEVER / PONDER	4 Aug 1796	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F16
12	EWEN / PORTER	1887	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F5081
13	GREEN / DOWNING	18 Jul 1857	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F847
14	HOLMES / NEVILL	9 Oct 1854	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F6488
15	HUDSON / ENEVER	27 Jun 1818	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F9622
16	READ / SPREADBOROUGH	12 Sep 1825	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F1465
17	RICHARDSON / ENEVER	28 May 1798	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F8052
18	SHERROTT / DYKE	20 Mar 1841	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F219
19	SPREADBOROUGH / BROWN	24 Apr 1825	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F1466
20	TODD / KING	12 May 1889	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F3711
21	WESTWOOD / ENNEVER	29 Jul 1878	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F505
22	WOOD / SMITH	30 Sep 1832	Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex	F5752