The Dettmers and the Jacksons, during their years living in London, used several different churches for their baptisms, marriages and burials.

St Pancras Old Church, dedicated possibly in mediaeval times to a Roman martyr, was where the majority of baptisms and marriages took place. Many Dettmers and Jacksons are listed in its register.
The building with which they were familiar had became derelict by 1845.
It was replaced with the pretty little building you see today, designed by Alexander Dick Gough.
It is located just to the north of St Pancras International railway station.
Many stone floor panels and some monuments in the walls date from the C17th.
The extensive churchyard was appropriated for the Midland Railway. In 1865, Thomas Hardy, later the  writer of Wessex tales, was in charge of exhumation and many headstones were moved, piled up under this tree which has since grown around them. The tree is known as Hardy's tree.
For some reason, William and Mary chose St Anne, Soho, for their marriage on 6th February 1797, the only known use by Dettmers of this 16th century church.

The church itself was burned out during the Blitz in 1940.

For burials the Dettmers most often chose St James,
Unfortunately no Dettmer names are to be found among 
Piccadilly, designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren.
monumental stones there today.




Other churches which they used as shown here.









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