Hillingdon, Middlesex Genealogy

England   Middlesex   Middlesex Parishes   Hillingdon

Parish History
HILLINGDON (St. John the Baptist; [records begin in 1559]), a parish, in the union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex, 13½ miles (W. by N.) from London; containing, with the market-town of Uxbridge, and the district of Uxbridge-Moor, 9246 inhabitants, of whom 3219 are in Uxbridge. Hillingdon House, the residence of Mr. Cox, was partly destroyed by fire in February 1844; the drawing-room, in which the Queen had been entertained to luncheon about three weeks previously, was destroyed: the damage was estimated at £15,000. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £16; net income, £489; patron, the Bishop of London; appropriator, the Bishop of Worcester: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1812. The church is principally in the later English style, with an embattled tower at the west end, and contains, among others, a fine monument to the memory of Henry, Earl of Uxbridge, who died in 1743: in the churchyard is the tomb of John Rich, comedian, who died in 1761. At Uxbridge and Uxbridge-Moor are separate incumbencies.

1. Samuel Lewis, ed. "Hill-Croome - Himbleton," In A Topographical Dictionary of England 512-514. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848), Online | here, (accessed: 27 April 2010).

Here is a complete list of all those district churches and chapels lying within the civil boundaries of St John the Baptist Hillingdon:


 * Hillingdon East - 1894
 * Hillingdon St Andrew 1865 (also known as Uxbridge St Andrew)
 * Hillingdon West - 1894
 * Uxbridge St John the Evangelist - 1827
 * Uxbridge St Margaret - 1538 (became a parish in 1842)

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.

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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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Maps and Gazetteers
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Web sites
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