Hampstead Emmanuel, West End, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
The origin of Emmanuel Church lies in the rapid development of West Hampstead in the second half of the nineteenth century after the arrival of the railways. The original hamlet of West End was part of the ecclesiastical parish of St John’s, Hampstead (St John’s Church stands in Church Row, in Hampstead Village) until 1872. In that year, it was assigned to the new parish of Holy Trinity, Hampstead. Holy Trinity Church stands in Finchley Road opposite the Underground station of the same name, although the original Victorian church was demolished and replaced by the present building in 1978.

Emmanuel West End Hampstead district church was created by the year 1885 and lay within the boundaries of the civil parish of St John 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
Hampstead Emmanuel 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