Acton Vale, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ACTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Brentford, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 5 miles W from London; containing the hamlets of East Acton and Steyne.

Acton Vale St Barnabas was created in 1884 and was later replaced by St Thomas in the year 1915 and lay within the civil parish of Acton St Mary.

A Vision of Britain through Time includes: a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Acton Vale has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Ealing. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Acton Vale and units named after it.

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
Acton Vale 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
Acton on GENUKI