Willesden St Matthew, Middlesex Genealogy

England Middlesex  Middlesex Parishes

Parish History
Willesden St Matthew's Church is an AnglicanParish church in Willesden in the London Borough of Brent. It is situated on the corner of St. Mary's Road and Fawcett Road in Willesden. It is in the deanery of Brent, in the archdeaconry of Northolt, in theDiocese of London.

Additional information:

St Matthew Willesden was a late-built district church, completed by the year 1902. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary the Virgin Willesden.

St. Matthew Willesden, was founded by the London Diocesan Home Mission 1894. St. Matthew was formed from St. Mary's and All Souls in 1902. The patron is the bishop of London.

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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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.

Poor Law Unions
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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