Hillingdon, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HILLINGDON St. John the Baptist [1559]), a parish, in the union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex, 13½ miles west by north of London, containing the chapels of Uxbridge and Uxbridge-Moor.

Here is a complete list of all those district churches and chapels lying within the civil boundaries of St John the Baptist Hillingdon:
 * Uxbridge St Margaret - 1538 (became a parish in 1842)
 * Uxbridge St John the Evangelist - 1827
 * Hillingdon St Andrew 1865 (also known as Uxbridge St Andrew)
 * Hillingdon West - 1894
 * Hillingdon East - 1894

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

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
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * 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)

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Hillingdon at British History Online - free.
 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Great Hillingdon 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 Uxbridge Manor (1422-1813) in Hillingdon 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
Hillingdon on GENUKI