Twickenham St Mary the Virgin, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Twickenham St Mary the Virgin, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
TWICKENHAM St. Mary, a parish in the union of Brentford, hundred of Isleworth, County of Middlesex, 9 miles west and southwest of London. A district church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built in 1841. There were also places of worship built for the congregations of Independents and Wesleyan Methodists.

Additional information:

The Victoria County History of Twickenham (1962) is available online. It includes a history of land ownership, manors, estates, mills, economic and social history, local government, churches, Roman Catholicism, Protestant nonconformity, schools, and charities.

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.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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 Twickenham, Worton, and Whitton Manor (1400-1909) in Twickenham 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
Twickenham on GENUKI