Kensal Rise, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
KENSAL RISE was created as a district church in 1899. It was in the Civil Parish of St Mary Willesden. The suburb lies on the Paddington canal, adjacent to four railways, and to junctions of them, 5 miles WNW of St. Paul's, London; comprises Kensal Green hamlet and Kensal New Town; contains many streets and villas of recent erection; and has a station on the N London railway, and post offices of Kensal Green and Kensal New Town, under Paddington, London W.

St Martin Kensal Rise was created as a district church in the year 1899. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary Willesden.

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
Kensal Rise 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
Kensal Rise in Willesden on GENUKI