Cowley, Middlesex Genealogy

England   Middlesex   Middlesex Parishes  Cowley

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, near the Great Western railway; containing 392 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11, and in the gift of J. Hilliard, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £197, and the glebe consists of 12 acres, with a glebe-house.

1. Samuel Lewis, ed. " Chinley - Chiswick," In A Topographical Dictionary of England 710-713. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848), Online | here, (accessed: 19 April 2010).

Another quote:

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 r. station, and 1½ N of West Drayton. It has a post office, of the name of Cowley, under Uxbridge. Acres, 300. Real property, £2, 182. Pop., 371. Houses, 78. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Pecches; and belongs now to W. E. Hilliard, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London. Value, £230.* Patron, W. E. Hilliard, Esq. The church has a monument to Booth the tragedian; and is good. Charities, £19.

[www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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[www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))


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