New Brentford, Middlesex Genealogy

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Parish History
BRENTFORD, a market-town, and the head of a union; comprising Old Brentford, in the parish of Ealing, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, and New Brentford, in the parish of Hanwell, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex. There were places of worship built for Particular Baptists(2), Independents (2), a Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist chapel and a Roman Catholic parish--all by 1870.

Additional information:

New Brentford St Laurence High Street (1570) was a chapelry within the parish of Hanwell and had the following chapels and district churches associated with it, including--St George's, High Street [an ancient curacy established in 1653], St Faith's, Windmill Road (?), and St Paul's St Paul's Road built in 1868.

See also Old Brentford.

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.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: New Brentford 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.

Poor Law Unions
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

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
New Brentford on GENUKI