Winchmore Hill, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
WINCHMORE-HILL, a chapelry, in the parish, union, and hundred of Edmonton, county of Middlesex, 8 miles N from London. The chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was erected in 1828. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, for Independents, and for Wesleyans; and a national school. .

Additional information:

From: 'Wincanton - Windy Nook', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 592-613. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51412 Date accessed: 29 October 2013. St. Paul's, Winchmore Hill was a chapel of ease (or chapelry) built in the year 1805 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of Edmonton All Saints.

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
Winchmore Hill 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
Winchore Hill in Edmonton on GENUKI