Whitton, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
WHITTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Twickenham parish, Middlesex; on the loop-line of the South-western railway, 2 miles SSW of Hounslow. The church was built in 1862.

Additional information:

St Philip and St James Church, Whitton was a district church built in the year 1862. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of Twickenham St Mary the Virgin.

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
Whitton 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: Witton 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.

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
Whitton in Twickenham on GENUKI