New Brentford Middlesex Family History Guide
New Brentford is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Middlesex, created in 1721 from a chapelry in Hanwell St Mary Ancient Parish. Abolished in 1952 with part helping to form Brentford St Lawrence with St Paul Ecclesiastical Parish, part to Brentford Ecclesiastical Parish, and part to Hanwell St Thomas Ecclesiastical Parish.
Alternative names: St. Lawrence
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1570
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629-30; 1639; 1800
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
New Brentford Parish Registers
New Brentford Marriages 1618 to 1812 Middlesex Parish Registers Marriages V. 4. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Thomas Gurney. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124 Chancery Lane. 1912. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BRENTFORD, a town, three chapelries, a subdistrict, and a district in Middlesex. The town stands at the influx of the river Brent to the Thames, 7½ miles W by S of London. The Grand Junction canal unites here with the Brent, and accompanies it to the Thames. The Southwestern, the Great Western, and the Metropolitan railways communicate with the town in various ways, and have stations for it with telegraph; and the Great Western connects here likewise with large docks for heavy traffic by water to London.
The town is ancient; and took its name from a ford, on the line of a great thoroughfare, across the Brent. It was the scene, in 1016, of a destructive overthrow of the Danes, by Edmund Ironside; and, in 1642, of a still more important overthrow of the parliamentarians by the royalists. A chapter of the garter was held at it in 1445; and six martyrs were burnt in it in 1558. The “Two Kings of Brentford” have done great service with all sorts of poets and poetasters, from William Cowper to Tom D’Urfey. John Lowin, the landlord of the “Three Pigeons” here, in the time of Ben Johnson, was a famous actor, and performed in Shakespeare’s own company.
The town is described by the poet Gay as a “tedious town, for dirty streets and white-legged chickens known;” and by the poet Thomson as “Brentford town -a town of mud.” It now comprises one long principal street; and contains some good houses. A bridge connects the lower end of the town, across the Thames, with Kew; and another bridge, erected in 1825 on the site of a very ancient one, crosses the Brent. The town hall and market house is a handsome brick and stone edifice.
St. Lawrence’ church is at the end of the town, near the bridge. St. George’s church was rebuilt, excepting the tower, in 1764; has been several times renovated; presents a light and pleasing appearance; and contains a splendid altar-piece, a large font, and monuments of the Clitherows, Dr. W. H. Ewin, Sarah Howell, and the father of John Horne Tooke. St. Paul’s church was built in 1868; and is in the decorated English style, and highly ornate.
There are two Independent chapels, two Baptist chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, a Roman Catholic chapel, literary club and reading rooms, British schools built at a cost of about £3,000, three national schools, a dispensary, a workhouse built at a cost of £9,000, the Grand Junction waterworks, with a chimney 150 feet high, extensive foundries, nurseries, brickfields, tile and pottery works, saw mills, maltings, a brewery, a soap manufactory, a weekly market on Tuesday, and fairs of three days in May and three days in Sept.
The town has post-offices of Brentford and Old Brentford, under London W., a banking office, two chief inns, and a police-station; is a seat of sessions and county courts, and the place of election for Middlesex; and comprises part of Isleworth parish. and all its own three chapelries. Sion House, a seat of the Duke of Northumberland, Osterley Park, the seat of the Earl of Jersey, Boston House, the seat of Col. Clitherow, and many handsome villas are in the neighbourhood. Pop. of the town in 1861, 9,521. Houses, 1,902.
The chapelries are St. Lawrence or New Brentford, a township of Hanwell parish, St. George-Old Brentford, in Ealing parish, and St. Paul-Old Brentford, also in Ealing. Pop. of St. L., 11,995; of St. G., 2,591; of St. P., 4,409. The livings are vicarages in the diocese of London. Value of St. L., £283; of St. G., £300; of St. P., £300. Patron of St. L., the Rector of Hanwell; of St. G., the Vicar of Ealing; of St. P., alternately the Crown and the Bishop. John Horne Tooke was incumbent of St. George.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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New Brentford and Old Brentford are chapelries in the town of Brentford.
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