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'''Middlesex is an inland county located in the lower mid-section of 'England'. '''

For other places with same name, please refer to Middlesex (disambiguation)

Tracing London and Other Large City Immigrants From Abroad
By Phillip B. Dunn Senior Consultant, FamilySearch.org™, Accredited Genealogist®

Genealogical research in England’s large cities and towns requires knowing the specific locale, town, borough or parish within a big city in order to determine in which original records to begin research. That your ancestor was “born in Manchester” or that he was “of London“, is insufficient information. It requires obtaining the specific name of the town or parish in Greater “London” or “Manchester, etc., in order to know specific records to use to build your family’s pedigree connections further back in time.

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Civil Districts
When civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Middlesex was divided into a number of registration districts, each containing several parishes. The index to the civil records gives the name of the district where an event took place. Click here to see a list of the civil districts in Middlesex and the parishes covered by each. Read more about England Civil Registration.

Parishes
See a list of the parishes of Middlesex with links to articles.

Probate Jurisdictions
Before 1858, every town and parish in Middlesex was under the probate jurisdiction of several ecclesiastical courts. To read more about probate records and see a list of Middlesex towns and parishes and the probate courts that had jurisdiction over them, go to Middlesex Probate Records.