Acton, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ACTON St Mary (1539), a parish, in the union of Brentford, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 5 miles (W.) from London. Also see ;East Acton and Steyne.

The following chapelries and district churches lay within the St Mary Acton Parish boundary:


 * All Saints, Bollo Bridge Rd. - 1872
 * St Aidan Church Mission - 1888
 * St Albans, Acton Green - 1888
 * St Andrews, Salisbury St. -
 * St Barnabas, Acton Vale - 1891
 * St Cuthbert's, Bollo Lane -
 * St Dunstan's, East Acton - 1879
 * St Thomas, Bromyard Ave, Acton – 1891

An Independent and a Wesleyan Chapel were built here, as well as a private mansion which was used as a Roman Catholic chapel.

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
Acton 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.

A List of District Churches and Chapels in Acton Parish

Here's a list of all those known churches and chapels associated and lying within the boundaries of Acton St Mary:


 * All Saints, Bollo Bridge Rd. - 1872
 * St. Albans, Acton Green - 1888
 * St. Andrews, Salisbury St. -1894
 * St. Barnabas, Acton Vale - 1891
 * St. Cuthbert's, Bollo Lane - 1880
 * St. Dunstan's, East Acton - 1879
 * St. Mary's, High St. – 1539 (* ancient parish)
 * St Thomas, Bromyard Ave, Acton – 1891

1600 Lay Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Acton (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Acton at British History Online - free.

1666-1674 Hearth Taxes

 * Smith, A. Harper and T. Harper Smith. Acton: The Hearth Tax Assessments, 1664-1674. London: A. and T. Harper, 1988..

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Manor records
Acton Manor records survive from the 1200s to the 1900s. The Manorial Documents Register serves as a guide to these records and where they are stored.

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
Acton on GENUKI