West Drayton, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
DRAYTON, WEST St. Martin [1568], a parish, in the union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, County of Middlesex, 3¼ miles (northeast of Colnbrook.

Additional information:

The Victoria County History of West Drayton (1962) is available online pp. 13-33. It includes a history of land ownership, manors, estates, mills, economic and social history, local government, church, Roman Catholicism and old Catholics, Protestant nonconformity, 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
West Drayton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: West Drayton 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 West Drayton Manor (1222-1937) in West Drayton Parish. The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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
West Drayton on GENUKI