Mayfair, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
St George Hanover Square, parish, Middlesex, in West of London forms the Hanover Square parliamentary division of Westminster.

Mayfair Chapel or Curzon Street Chapel, is situated about the middle of the south side of Curzon Street, near Shepherd's Market. It is an episcopal chapel (about 1730) of the Church of England, more generally known by the name of Curzon Street Chapel and lies within the civil jurisdiction and boundaries of St George Hanover Square.

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
Mayfair 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.

Poor Law Unions
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

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
Mayfair in St George Hanover Square on GENUKI