Isleworth, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Isleworth, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred in County Middlesex, 1 mile southwest of Brentford. See also the villages, hamlets and towns of Brentford End, Smallberry Green, Whitton Dean, Wyke Green, and part of Hounslow Town. These places comprise the following Church of England chapelries:
 * All Saints, Isleworth - 1566
 * Hounslow (part of) - 1708
 * St John's, Isleworth - 1856
 * St Mary's, Spring Grove, Osterley - 1856
 * St Mary the Virgin, Worton Road, Isleworth -
 * St Margaret's on Thames, Isleworth - 1860
 * All Souls, Northcote Rd, Isleworth - 1898

Other denominational churches built here, included ones for Independents, Wesleyans Methodists, Quakers and Roman Catholics.

The Victoria County History of Heston and Isleworth (1962) is available online. It includes a history of land ownership, manors, estates, markets and fairs, mills, economic and social history, local government, churches, Roman Catholicism, Protestant nonconformity, other denominations, schools, and charities.

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: Isleworth 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 Worton Manor (1435-1467) in Isleworth 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
Isleworth on GENUKI