Kinnersley Records in Early London

The branch of the Kinnersley family that we are most interested in came from London. Here are some examples of early London records:

• Daniel Harvey married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Kinnersley, Esq of London, merchant, in 1651. (This is from Burke's Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vII p433).
• Thos Kinnersley and Mary, 1676, London Marriage Licenses (Canterbury) p259.

London parishes containing Kinnersley records include St George's Hanover Square, St Thomas, St Margaret Moses, St Paul's Covent Garden, St Bartholomew's by Exchange, and Temple Church. A few of the entries:

• Thomas Kinnersley m. Frances Woodcock 18 Oct 1750, St Margaret Lothbury.
• Thomas b. 20 Jun 1751 of Thomas and Frances, St Mary, Stoke Newington.
• Thomas Kinnersley b. 18 Apr 1775 of William and Mary, St Stephen Coleman Street.

Another item:

"A brief narrative of the affair which happened at Tours to the Viscount Dunkeron, Mr Kinnersley, and Mr Stuart, touching the killing of one Mauripate, etc" (1732) – A folio in the British Museum.

Two printed Kinnersley genealogies exist:

• History of the Family of Kynnersley of Leighton, Shropshire, by T. F. Kynnersley (private printing, Shrewsbury, 1897) – A copy of this is in the British Museum.
• A History of the Kindersley Family, octavo AC.13 421, by Arthur Fasken Kindersley (Mackays Ltd, Chatham, Oct 1938). This book gives an excellent summary of the early Kinnersley records.

According to a letter from Albert J. Kinnersley, a lawyer, written in the 1940's to my father, a Sir William H. Kinnersley was Vice Chancellor to the King of England at some time during the 1700's, and wrote several important legal opinions on contract law. So far, I have been unable to confirm this.

John Kinnersley Hooper (1791-1854) was Lord Mayor of London for the year 1847.