Hounslow, Middlesex, England Genealogy

Hounslow

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

Hounslow
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Middlesex
Hundred	Isleworth
Poor Law Union	Brentford
Registration District	Brentford
Records Begin
Parish registers	1708
Bishop's Transcripts	1836
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not created until 1858
Diocese	London
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex
Archive
Middlesex Record Office

Parish History

HOUNSLOW, a district chapelry, and formerly a market-town, partly in the parish of Isleworth, but chiefly in that of Heston, union of Brentford, hundred of Isleworth, county of Middlesex, 9½ miles WSW from London. The ancient chapel of the priory, which, after the Reformation, was used as a chapel of ease to Heston, was taken down, and the erection of a new church on its site was completed in December 1829. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.^[1]

HOUNSLOW Holy Trinity, was created a district chapelry [by 1708], and was formerly a market-town, lying partly in the Parish of Isleworth, but mostly in the Parish of Heston, union of Brentford, hundred of Isleworth, County of Middlesex, 9½ miles west by southwest of London. The ancient priory chapel was, after the Reformation, used as a chapel of ease to Heston. A new chapel was built on its site, and was completed in December 1829.

Holy Trinity - 1708
St Dunstan & Holy Angels - 1882
St George’s Barrack Chapel -
St Paul, Hounslow Heath - 1873

findmypast^[2] has digitised Hounslow St Paul baptisms

St Richard of Chichester, Forge Lane -
St Stephen - 1877

There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.^[3]

Resources

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Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records

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Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England

Due to the increasing access of online records:

Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified

Dates in the following table are approximate

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Hounslow Online Parish Records
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Middlesex	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
FamilySearch Parish Registers-Middlesex	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Middlesex ($)	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1400s-1900s
Findmypast (Westminster)-Middlesex ($)	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1400s-1900s
Findmypast Banns-Middlesex ($)	-	-	-	1700s-1800s	-	-
Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Early) ($)	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-	1500s-1800s	-
Ancestry-London Church of England BMD (Late) ($)	1800s-1900s	-	1700s-1900s	-	1800s-2000s	-
Ancestry Marriage Bonds and Allegations-London and Surrey ($)	-	-	1600s-1900s	-	-	-
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1600s-1800s

Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

1666 Hearth Tax

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

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

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Websites

Hounslow on GENUKI

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 562-566. Adapted. Date accessed 5 February 2014.
↑ 'Middlesex baptism records coverage,' Findmypast, accessed 29 September 2012.
↑ Samuel Lewis, ed. A Topographical Dictionary of England 562-566. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848). British History Online, (accessed: 28 April 2010).

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 562-566. Adapted. Date accessed 5 February 2014.

[2] 'Middlesex baptism records coverage,' Findmypast, accessed 29 September 2012.

[3] Samuel Lewis, ed. A Topographical Dictionary of England 562-566. (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1848). British History Online, (accessed: 28 April 2010).

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