Harlesden All Souls, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HARLESDEN, a hamlet in Willesden parish, Middlesex; adjacent to the forkings of the railway from London to Kilburn, to Watford, and to Brentford, 1 mile S of Millesden, and 1¼ WNW of Kensal Green. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office, of the name of Harlesden Green, under Willesden, London NW.

Harlesden All Souls was a district church built in 1875 to accommodate the burgeoning population in that segment of the civil parish of Willesden where it lies. A sister church was later built in 1915 called St Mark Harlesden.

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
Harlesden All Souls 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