Staines St Peter, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
STAINES, a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Spelthorne, county of Middlesex, 10 miles WSW from Brentford, and 17 WSW from London. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends and Independents.

Additional information:

St Peter Staines, was a district church or a church built to ease the demands of an increase of population within Staines civil parish. This church was built in the year 1894.

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
Staines St Peter 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

Websites
Staines on GENUKI