Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
SUNBURY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Staines, hundred of Spelthorne, county of Middlesex, 15 miles SW by W from London.

SUNBURY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Staines district, Middlesex. The village stands on the River Thames, and on the Thames Valley railway, 4¾ miles W of Kingston; was known, at Domesday, as Suneberie. There are an Independent chapel and a Wesleyan chapel.

Additional information:

St Saviours, Sunbury-on-Thames is a district church which was created from Sunbury St Mary's in order to ease the population growth within the civil parish boundaries. It was built in 1884.

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
Sunbury on Thames 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
Sunbury on GENUKI