Norwood, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
NORWOOD, a precinct and parochial chapelry, in the union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex, 2½ miles N by W from Hounslow with the hamlet of Southall, and part of North Hyde hamlet. The chapel has been enlarged. A district church, dedicated to St. John, was erected at Southall in 1839.

Norwood, a village, a precinct, and a chapelry (by at least 1654) in Hayes Parish, Middlesex, 3 miles west by northwest of Brentford. The precinct contains also the hamlets of Norwood Green, Southall and Southall Green, and part of the hamlet of North Hyde. The chapelry of Norwood comprises all the precinct except the minor part, which forms the chapelry of Southall.

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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Norwood at British History Online - free.

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.

Manorial Records
Records survive for Southall Manor (1511-1929) in Norwood 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
Norwood in Hayes on GENUKI