West Hampstead St James, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
West Hampstead (St James). Hampstead parish, Middlesex, in North of London, 2¼ miles NW of Baker Street Station. There is a railway station.

Additional information:

St James West Hampstead, built in the year 1888, was a district church built within the boundaries of the civil parish of St John Hampstead.

Resources
Here is an online historical view with some churchyard monumental notes from St James Hampstead Parish Church: "Life and Death in Hampstead"

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
West Hampstead St James 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
Hampstead on GENUKI