Ashford, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ASHFORD (St. Michael), is a parish, in the union of Staines, the hundred of Spelthorne, and county of Middlesex, it is 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Chertsey. The church is a small edifice, built in 1796.

The Victoria County History of Ashford (1911) is available online. It includes a history of land ownership, the manor, church, advowson, and charities.

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
Ashford 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.

1666 Hearth Tax

 * Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Ashford at British History Online - free.

Manor records
Ashford Manor records survive from the 1200s to the 1900s. The Manorial Documents Register serves as a guide to these records and where they are stored.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Ashford on GENUKI

Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.