Willesden St Andrew, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Willesden St Andrew, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
The church of St Andrew the Apostle is on the High Road (at the junction with St Andrew's Road), Willesden, London NW 10.

Willesden St Andrew. The parish is the Willesden Episcopal Area of the Diocese of London. It is a 'Forward in Faith' parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Fulham.

The parish covers the area of the London Borough of Brent between Dollis Hill and Willesden Green Stations, on the Jubilee Line, in north west London. The Jubilee (and Metropolitan and Chiltern Lines) divide the parish down the middle, with the church of St Andrew the Apostle on one side and church of St Francis of Assisi on the other.

St Francis church is now the home of the Polish Catholic Community in Willesden Green, served by the Polish Jesuit Fathers from their house on Walm Lane. email contact@willesdengreenparish.org.uk.

St Francis of Assisi. Fleetwood Road, London, NW 10 - St Andrew, High Road, London, NW 10

St Andrew Willesden was a district church built in the year 1880. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary the Virgin Willesden.

St. Andrew, Willesden is on High Rd. It was formed in 1880 from St. Mary's. The patron is the bishop of London and Crown alternately.

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
Willesden St Andrew 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
Willesden on GENUKI