Portland Town, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
PORTLAND TOWN, a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry in Marylebone parish, Middlesex. The suburb lies W of Regent's park and S of the Northwestern railway, 3½ miles NW by W of St. Paul's. The chapelry was constituted in 1849.

JOHN'S WOOD (ST.), a metropolitan suburb and three chapelries in Marylebone parish, Middlesex. The chapelries are Christ Chapel, All Saints and St. Mark.

Additional information:

St Stephen, St John's Wood Portland Town was a district church, built in the year 1846, which lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Marylebone.

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
Portland Town 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
Portland Town in St Marylebone on GENUKI