County Resources
Middlesex
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For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
What is Middlesex?
Middlesex became a shire in the 10th Century and was divided into the Hundreds of Edmonton, Elthorne, Gore, Hounslow, Ossulstone and Spelthorne. Much of the area was lost to the County of London with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888. Middlesex ceased to exist as a separate county on 31st March 1965 when, together with parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey, it became part of the administrative area known as Greater London.
The Library of the Society of Genealogists, and this guide, assign places to Middlesex as it existed before 1889.
County-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-L | M-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists : the City of London & Middlesex parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences, monumental inscriptions. London: SoG, 2002 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 3: sources for Roman Catholic & Jewish genealogy & family history [TB/PR, RC/GEN]
National index of parish registers, vol. 9, part 5 London & Middlesex. 2nd rev. edn. London: SoG, 2002. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Anglican parish registers held at the London Metropolitan Archives arranged by name of church [deposited before Feb 1999] [Microfiche.] [MX/REG/95209/1-5]
County of Middlesex, Diocese of London, parish registers: a list of registers in the London Metropolitan Archives arranged by the name of the church [Microfiche.] [MX/REG/90887/1-6 & Shelf 9]
A finding aid for London & Middlesex places in the [Society of Genealogists] library catalogue [MX/R 2]
Genealogical research in Victorian London: West Surrey FHS research aids 6. 6th rev ed. [MX/G 258]
Genealogical research in late Victorian & Edwardian London: West Surrey FHS research aids 15 [MX/G 258]
The genealogist's consolidated guide to parish register copies & indexes in the outer London area 1538-1837. 3rd edn. [London/Middlesex tracts box]
A guide to Middlesex parish documents (now including poor law records): West Surrey FHS research aids 33. 4th rev. edn. [MX/G 258]
Guide to Parish Registers deposited in the Greater London Record Office. 2nd rev ed. [Middle Library enquiry counter]
Irregular marriages in London before 1754: London & Middlesex tracts, vol. 4 2nd edn. [MX/G 4A]
List of parishes included in the marriage index of London churches the property of the Institute of Genealogical & Heraldic Studies, Canterbury, Kent: Key to Pallot's marriage index [Typescript.] [MX/R 231]
London & Middlesex parishes [a guide to the location of parish register copies] [Computer printout.] [MX/R 293]
Middlesex in the 1988 IGI: West Surrey FHS research aids 20 [MX/G 258]
Middlesex parish registers: summary guide [MX/R 14]
Middlesex wills, marriage licenses & bishops' transcripts: West Surrey FHS research aids 24 [MX/G 258A]
Nonconformist, Roman Catholic, Jewish & burial ground registers: Guildhall Library research guide 6. 3rd edn. [Middle Library enquiry counter]
Parish register typescripts prepared by W H Challen from parishes in London, midlands & southern counties in 87 volumes: Reference tracts, vol. 2 [Middle Library enquiry counter]
Parish registers for London & Middlesex: Transactions of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, new series, vol. 8 part 1 [Store A (MX/PER)]
The parish registers for London & Middlesex, reprinted from the Transactions of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, new series, vol. 8 part 1: London/Middlesex tracts, vol. 6 [Summer Palace shelves]
Registrum ecclesiae parochialis : the history of parish registers in England, also the registers of Scotland, Ireland, the East & West Indies, the dissenters, & the episcopal chapels in & around London [TB/PR]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the British Origins website.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Bishop Richard Challoner's memorandum book: C 1730-60, Easter communicants, catechisms, confirmations, converts, deaths & one or two marriages 1730-80 for London, the home counties & beyond [Photocopy of Ms.] [RC/REG]
Boyd's inhabitants of London [London/Middlesex shelves]
Boyd’s London burials (extracts of adult male entries only) 1538-1853 [Typescript.] [MX/R 232-247]
The Catholic registers of Fr. Monox Hervey [CM 1729-56]: Catholic Record Society publications, vol. 14 [RC/PER]
Funeral certificates [Manuscript.] [MX/R 266]
Gloucestershire strays in London & Middlesex [Manuscript.] [Box 42/folder 36]
An index of stray registrations, vol. 3 [M extracts (I) 1606-1829] [London entries] [UK/REG]
Index to Lyson's environs of London, parts 1 & 2 [Manuscript.] [MX/M 57]
LONDON (Fr. Bruno Cantrill's Catholic registers): C 1730-54, M 1730-48; includes a list of converts 1728-53: Catholic Record Society publications, vol. 19 [RC/PER]
LONDON (Fr. Joseph Alexius Smallwood's Catholic registers): M 1730-50: Catholic Record Society publications, vol. 19 [RC/PER]
London pedigrees, parish register abstracts, vols. 1 & 2 (1st series) & additional A-Z (2nd series) [Manuscript.] [MX/G 95-97]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - London & Middlesex Quarterly Meeting: Z 1644-1838 & 1694-1836, M 1657-1837 & 1670-1770, B 1661-1837 & 1678-1785 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3365-67]
The register book of the 4th classis in the province of London 1646-59: Harleian Society registers, vol. 82 & 83 [MX/R 80]
Society of Friends marriages in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, London & Middlesex [1660-1836]: Hertfordshire marriages, vol. 6 [Typescript.] [HT/R 66]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
The archives of the French Protestant Church of London: a handlist: Huguenot Society publications quarto series, vol. 50 [HUG/PER]
Irregular marriages in London before 1754. 2nd edn.: London & Middlesex tracts, vol. 4 [MX/G 4A]
Middlesex wills, marriage licenses & bishops' transcripts: West Surrey FHS research aids 24 [MX/G 258A]
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
16th century marriages (1538-1600) [Store A (UK/REG)]
Abstracts of the Ketubot or marriage contracts of the Spanish & Portuguese Congregation of London from the earliest times until 1837: Bevis Marks records, part 2 [JR/REG]
Abstracts of the Ketubot or marriage contracts & of the civil marriage registers of the Spanish & Portuguese Congregation of London for the period 1837-1901: Bevis Marks records, part 3 [JR/REG]
Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Bishop of London, vols 1 & 2: 1520-1610 & 1611-1828: Harleian Society, vol. 25 [HARL]
Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Dean & Chapter of Westminster, 1558-1699 & allegations for marriage licences issued by the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660-79: Harleian Society, vol. 23 [HARL]
Archdeaconry of Middlesex licences 1709-11: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] [Boyd's marriage index shelves]
Bishop of London's marriage licences 1597-98 [with index] [Manuscript.] [ML/LON]
Bishop of London's marriage licences 1761-65: an alphabetical arrangement [Manuscript.] [ML/LON]
A calendar of the marriage licence allegations in the Registry of the Bishop of London, 1597-1700, vol. 1: 1597-1648 & vol. 2: 1660-1700: British Record Society Index Library, vols. 62 & 66 [BRS]
Crisp's abstracts of miscellaneous marriage licences from London parishes [Typescript.[MX/R 335-341]
Genealogical gleanings in England: extracts from marriage licences granted by the Bishop of London, 1598-1639 [ML/LON]
Index to Archdeaconry of Middlesex : marriage licences 1709-11 [Photocopy.] [MX/R 294]
The Ketuboth of Bevis Marks [1689-1700]: Miscellanies of the Jewish Historical Society of England, part 2 [JR/PER]
London & Middlesex arms & notes [Manuscript.] [MX/G 58]
London marriage licences [& allegations], 1521-1869 [including Bishop of London 1521 - 4th Dec 1597 (complete) & 7th Dec 1597-1828 (extracts), Dean & Chapter of Westminster 1559-1699 (complete), Vicar General 1660-79 (extracts) & Faculty Office 1543-1631 (complete) & 1632-1869 (extracts)] [ML/GEN] & on microfiche [ML/GEN/72707/1-9]
London marriage licences calendar, 1761-62 [Typescript.] [Box 42/folder 24]
Marriage licences issued by the Bishop of London arranged alphabetically, parts 1-14: 1700-45 [Typescript.] [ML/LON]
Peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Deaneries of Croydon & Shoreham: Marriage allegations 1707-1804 [Microfilm.] [Mf 4147-4150]
Special marriage licences 1766-1891 [most for St. Peter, Eaton Square]: Fragmenta genealogica, vol. 7 [PER/FRA]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
Bunhill Fields, City Road, EC2 [London/Middlesex tracts box]
Greater London cemeteries & crematoria. London: SoG, 1999. 6th edn. [Middle Library enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Harrap's guide to famous London graves [MX/M 53]
Index to Lyson's environs of London, part 1 A-K, part 2 L-Z [Manuscript.] [MX/M 57]
The London burial grounds: notes on their history from earliest times to the present day [MX/G 23]
London cemeteries: an illustrated guide & gazetteer. 2nd ed. [MX/M 54]
London parishes, vol. 3: London outside the City (Battersea - Whitechapel) being genealogical notes mainly taken from editions of Stow's Survey of London & Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum [Manuscript.] [MX/G 94]
London's statues [MX/G 236]
Monumental inscriptions in England relating to West Indians: Caribbeana, being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, & antiquities of the British West Indies, vol. 1-5 [Microfiche.] [WI/PER/17639-4]
Permanent Londoners: an illustrated guide to the cemeteries of London [MX/G 121]
War memorials & rolls of honour: an indexed transcription of war memorials & rolls of honour from west Middlesex ... [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (MX/MI)]
Wates's book of London churchyards: a guide to the old churchyards & burial grounds of the City and Central London [MX/G 207]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. New Brentford 1810 census, Ealing 1801 and 1811 censuses
Guide to the Middlesex census returns 1801-91: West Surrey FHS research aids 25 & 26 [MX/G 258]
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
LONDON/MIDDLESEX - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
LONDON/MIDDLESEX - DIRECTORIES
or
LONDON/MIDDLESEX - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at 1837-online
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
LONDON/MIDDLESEX - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
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CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Middlesex. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Abney Park Cemetery | Acton | Ashford | Bayswater | Bedfont, East | Bethnal Green | Brunswick Square Cemetery | Bloomsbury see also St George the Martyr Queen Square | Bow see Stepney St Mary, Bow | Brentford | Brentford, New | Brentford, Old | Bromley by Bow | Brompton | Bunhill Fields | Camden | Carey Street chapel | Charing Cross | Charterhouse chapel | Chelsea | Chiswick | Clerkenwell | Cockfosters | Covent Garden | Cowley | Cranford | Drayton, West | Ealing | Edgware | Edmonton | Ely chapel, Holborn | Enfield | Feltham | Finchley | Finchley, East | Finsbury | Foundling Hospital chapel | Friern Barnet | Fulham | Glasshouse Street chapel | Gray’s Inn chapel | Gray’s Inn Road cemetery | Great Portland Street Synagogue | Greenford | Hackney | Hackney, West | Hadley | Haggerston | Hammersmith | Hampstead | Hampton | Hanwell | Hanworth | Harefield | Harlington | Harmondsworth | Harow on the Hill | Harrow Weald | Hayes | Hendon | Heston | Highgate | Hillingdon | Holborn | Hornsey | Hounslow | Hoxton | Hungerford Market | Ickenham | Isleworth | Islington | Kensal Green | Kensington | Kentish Town | Kingsbury | Knightsbridge | Laleham | Limehouse | Lincoln’s Inn chapel | Lincoln’s Inn Fields | Littleton
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Middlesex. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Marylebone see St Marylebone | Mayfair | Middlesex Hospital | Mile End | Mill Hill | Mimms, South | Monken Hadley | Moorfields | Northolt | Northwood | Norwood | Norwood Green | Notting Hill | Oxford chapel | Paddington | Paines Lane Cemetery | Pentonville | Perivale | Pinner | Ponders End | Poplar | Potters Bar | Poyle | Regent’s Park | Rider Court | Rolls Chapel | Ruislip | St Clement Danes | St George Hanover Square | St George the Martyr Queen Square | St George’s Fields, Albion Street | St Giles in the Fields | St James Hampstead Road | St James Westminster (Picadilly) | St James’s Palace Chapel Royal | St Katherine Regent’s Park | St Luke Old Street | St Margaret Westminster see Westminster St Margaret | St Martin in the Fields | St Mary le Strand | St Marylebone | St Pancras | St Paul Covent Garden | St Thomas Charterhouse | Shadwell | Shepperton | Shoreditch | Soho | Somers Town | Somerset House Chapel | Southgate | Southgate, New | Southgate, Old | Spitalfields | Staines | Stamford Hill | Stanmore, Great | Stanmore, Little | Stanwell | Stepney | Stoke Newington | Sunbury on Thames | Swallow Street Chapel | Teddington | Tottenham | Totteridge | Twickenham | Uxbridge | Wapping | Wembley | West Street Chapel | Westminster | Whetstone | Whitchurch see Little Stanmore | Whitechapel | Whitehall | Willesden
