Hanwell St Mary, Middlesex Family History Guide

Hanwell St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Middlesex.

Other places in the parish include: Dorman Wells.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1570
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1630; 1639; 1800

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Independent/Congregational.

Adjacent Parishes

Ealing St Mary
Greenford
Norwood
Southall Green St John
Isleworth
West Twyford
Wembley
New Brentford

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HANWELL (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Brentford, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex, 8 miles (W.) from London; containing 1469 inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the river Brent, and bounded on the west by the Grand Junction canal. Within its limits, also, the Great Western railway is conveyed across the valley of the Brent by a viaduct of chaste and elegant design, 886 feet in length, and 80 feet in height, consisting of 8 elliptical arches 70 feet in span. A station is fixed here, and in the vicinity are very considerable embankments. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £20, and in the gift of the Bishop of London: the tithes have been commuted for £400, and the glebe comprises 25 acres. The church, built on the site of the former edifice, which, not being large enough for the increasing population, was pulled down, is a very handsome structure, in the Anglo-Roman style, consecrated in April, 1842, and containing about 700 sittings, whereof nearly 300 are free. There is a place of worship for Independents. William Hobbayne, in 1484, gave for charitable uses land then valued at £6 a year, but now producing upwards of £105, of which sum £35 are applied to the support of a school. The Hanwell County Lunatic Asylum, an elegant building lately much enlarged, is within the parochial chapelry of Norwood: it is capable of accommodating 950 inmates. Dr. George Henry Glasse, an eminent classical scholar, who died in 1809, was rector of Hanwell; Jonas Hanway, the traveller and philanthropist, who died in 1786, was buried here.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

Middlesex

England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988

England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912

England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 Browse Images

Middlesex Military Service Appeal Tribunal 1916-1918

Records for England

Newspaper Archives

British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices

British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries

Administration

County: Middlesex
Civil Registration District: Brentford
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex
Diocese: London
Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
Poor Law Union: Brentford
Hundred: Elthorne
Province: Canterbury

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

Parish Records

Middlesex

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Births and Baptism Records

Marriage Records

Death Records

Non-Conformist Records

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