Cowley, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Cowley St. Lawrence, a parish, in the union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex, 1½ mile S by E from Uxbridge.'

COWLEY, or Cowley Peachy, a parish in Uxbridge district, Middlesex; on the Roman Road from Staines to St. Albans, the River Colne, and the Grand Junction canal, at the boundary with Bucks 1 ½ mile S of Uxbridge railway station, and 1½ N of West Drayton.'

The Victoria County History of Cowley (1962) is available online. It includes a history of land ownership, manors, estates, mills, local government, church, nonconformity, schools and charities.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Cowley on GENUKI