Old Brentford, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Old Brentford St Paul, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Brentford (see also New Brentford) which comprised of two divisions: Old Brentford and New Brentford. Old Brentford had two chapelries by 1870. These two chapelries included St George--built well before 1770 which lay within the ancient parish boundary of Ealing. The other chapel (in Old Brentford) included St Paul Church, built by the year 1868 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of Ealing St Mary. There are also places of worship for Particular Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

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
Old Brentford 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.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Old Brentford 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.

Poor Law Unions
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

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
Old Brentford on GENUKI