Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Here is a List of District Churches and Chapels Within the Civil Parish Boundaries of St Mary Harrow-on-the-Hill.

Parish History
HARROW-ON-THE-HILL (St. Mary), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hendon, hundred of Gore, county of Middlesex, 9 miles NW by W from London; containing, with the hamlets of Alperton, Greenhill, Kenton, Preston, Roxeth, Sudbury, and Wembley. A free Grammar School was instituted here in the reign of Elizabeth I in 1571.

The church is a spacious structure, with a tower and lofty spire at the west end: the pillars between the nave and the aisles, and a part of the tower, where is a curious Norman doorway, probably formed portions of a church recorded to have been founded by Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign of William I, but the remainder of the edifice appears to have been built in the latter part of the 14th century. There is a district chapel at Harrow Weald. The Baptists and Wesleyans have places of worship. At the extremity of the parish, towards Stanmore, was a priory called Benethly or Bentley, the site of which forms part of the estate of the Marquess of Abercorn.

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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
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Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
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 * 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)

1523 Lay Subsidy

 * Grazebrook, George. 'The Inhabitants of "Harrowe super montem" in 1523,' Middlesex & Hertfordshire Notes and Queries, Vol. 2 (1896):108-115. Digital version at Internet Archive

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Harrow on the Hill at British History Online

Probate Records

 * Court of the Deanery of the Arches of London, Croydon, and Shoreham probate records are available online at for free.

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.

Cemetery

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Manorial Records

 * Records survive for three manors in Harrow Parish: Pinner Manor (c 1285), Roxeth Manor (1529-1610) and Uxendon Manor (1609). The Manorial Documents Register will help you locate these records.

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