Ealing St Mary, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
EALING, a village and a parish in Brentford district, Middlesex. The village stands adjacent to the Great Western railway, 1½ mile N by E of Brentford; has a station on the railway with telegraph, a post office under London W, and a police station. It was formerly called Yelling. The parish contains also the hamlet of Little Ealing and the chapelry of Old Brentford. Acres, 3,814. Real property, £58,681; of which £3,950 are in gas works. Pop. in 1851, 9,828; in 1861, 11,963. Houses, 2,336. Population, exclusive of Old Brentford chapelry, 5,215. The rated property, exclusive of Old Brentford, amounts to £28,952, and is not much divided. The manor belongs to the Bishop of London and part of the land is common.

Ealing Grove was the seat of the Gulstons; Ealing Green was the seat of Sir J. Soane; Ealing Park was the seat and death place of Bishop Z. Pearce; Castle Beare belonged to the Duke of Kent; and Gunnersbury Park is the seat of Baron Rothschild. Dr. Owen, Peter le Conrager, Perceval, and Fielding were residents.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £679.* Patron, the Bishop of London. The church was rebuilt in 1740, and was highly improved in 1866. The vicarages of Christchurch, St. Paul, and old Brentford are separate benefices. Christchurch was constituted in 1852; St. Paul, in 1864. Population of Christ Church, 3,324; of St. Paul, 4,409. Value of Christ Church vicarage, £300; of St. Paul's, £300. Patron of C., the Bishop; of St. P., alternately the Crown and the Bishop.

Two temporary churches, St. John and St. Stephen, were built in 1867. A new Independent chapel, in the Gothic style, was built in 1861, at a cost of £5,000. Two chapels, Baptist and Wesleyan, were built in 1865. Lady Capel's boys' school has £149 from endowment; Lady Rawlinson's girls' school has £144; charities, £274.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

1600 Lay Subsidy

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

Hearth Tax

 * Allison, K.J. Ealing in the XVIIth Century: Hearth Tax Assessments for Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt and Perivale. London: Ealing Local History Society, 1963..

Manorial Records
Records survive for two manors in Ealing Parish: Boston Manor (1529-c 1850) and Ealing Manor (1362-1897). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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.

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Websites

 * St Mary's Ealing (official website)
 * Ealing on GENUKI