West Hackney, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
West Hackney, Middlesex. HACKNEY, a parish, forming a union with Stoke Newington, in the Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2 miles NE from London; comprising four districts, viz., Hackney St. John, South Hackney, West Hackney and Stamford Hill. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans and Unitarians.

Additional information:

West Hackney St. James was originally created as a chapelry or chapel of ease, in order to subdivide the ancient parish of Hackney St John due to population increases. This chapel was built in the year 1824 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of St John Hackney.

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 Hackney 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
Hackney on GENUKI