Willesden St Matthew, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Willesden St Matthew's Church is an AnglicanParish church in Willesden in the London Borough of Brent. It is situated on the corner of St. Mary's Road and Fawcett Road in Willesden. It is in the deanery of Brent, in the archdeaconry of Northolt, in theDiocese of London.

Additional information:

St Matthew Willesden was a late-built district church, completed by the year 1902. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary the Virgin Willesden.

St. Matthew Willesden, was founded by the London Diocesan Home Mission 1894. St. Matthew was formed from St. Mary's and All Souls in 1902. The patron is the bishop of London. =

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
Willesden St Matthew 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
 * (courtesy: WeRelate)

Websites
Willesden on GENUKI