Hanwell St Mark, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HANWELL, a village and a parish in Brentford district, Middlesex. The village stands on the River Brent, adjacent to the Great Western railway, near the Grand Junction canal, 2½ miles NNW of Brentford; was known at Domesday as Hanewelle; belonged then to Westminster Abbey; Theparish includes also the hamlet of Dormans-Wells.

St Mark, Lower Boston Road, Hanwell was created and established in 1879 and was in the ancient parish boundary of Hanwell St Mary Parish.

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
Hanwell St Mark 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.

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.

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
Hanwell on GENUKI