Chiswick St Nicholas, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Chiswick St Nicholas, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CHISWICK (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Brentford, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 4½ miles W by S from London.

Chiswick St. Nicholas, an ancient parish, was built by 1678, "in the union of Brentford, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 4½ miles W by S from London". Within this parish were several chapelries attached to it and lying within its boundary:


 * All Saints Mission Church, Beverley Road - 1901
 * Christ Church, Turnham Green - 1845 - (courtesy: WeRelate)
 * St. James, Gunnersbury - 1888
 * St. Mary Magdalene's, Bennett Street - 1860
 * St. Michael & All Angels Bedford Park - 1879
 * St. Paul's, Grove Park - 1870

The following denominations, at least historically, had the following chapels lying within the parish prior to 1900 :

Congregationalists/Independents

 * Chiswick Lane Chapel- 1812; chapel acquired by Baptists in 1866
 * Strand-on-the-Green 1833
 * Turnham Green or Gunnersbury Congregational Church - 1873

Methodists

 * Chiswick Methodist Church, Sutton Court Road - 1845
 * Strand-on-the-Green Meeting - about 1875
 * Primitive Methodist, formerly Congregationalist and Baptist Chapel, Chiswick La. - 1882 (see above)

Baptists

 * Chiswick Baptist Church (formerly Cong. Chapel, Chiswick La. - 1866
 * Iron Chapel, Annandale Road - 1882
 * Gunnersbury Baptist Chapel - 1873

Reformed Episcopalians

 * Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church - 1883

Salvation Army

 * Chiswick Hall, High Road - 1890

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

1600 Lay Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Cheswicke (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Chiswick at British History Online - free.
 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Chiswick Town at British History Online - free.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Middlesex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Manorial Records

 * Records survive for Sutton Manor (1222-1900) in Chiswick Parish. The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Chiswick on GENUKI