Place:Middlesex, England

NameMiddlesex
Alt namesMxsource: from redirect
MDXsource: Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002
Middelseaxansource: Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1998)
Middxsource: Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002; Royal Mail: PAF Digest [online] (2002) accessed 16 Dec 2002
Midelsexesource: Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1998)
TypeHistoric county, Administrative county
Located inEngland     ( - 1965)
See alsoLondon, Englandor "County of London", municipality into which part of Middlesex was absorbed in 1889
Greater London, Englandmunicipality into which further parts of Middlesex were absorbed in 1965
Contained Places
Area
Bayswater ( - 1889 )
Bounds Green ( - 1965 )
Brompton ( - 1889 )
Brondesbury ( - 1965 )
Canonbury ( - 1889 )
Chalk Farm ( - 1889 )
Childs Hill ( - 1965 )
Cricklewood ( - 1965 )
Crouch End ( - 1965 )
Dollis Hill ( - 1965 )
Earls Court ( - 1889 )
East Acton
Farringdon ( - 1889 )
Harlesden ( - 1965 )
Highbury ( - 1889 )
Holland Park ( - 1889 )
Holloway ( - 1889 )
Kensal Green ( - 1965 )
Kenton ( - 1965 )
Kilburn ( - 1965 )
Knightsbridge ( - 1889 )
Lower Holloway ( - 1889 )
Maida Vale ( - 1889 )
Muswell Hill ( - 1965 )
Newington Green ( - 1889 )
North Kensington ( - 1889 )
Notting Hill ( - 1889 )
Palmers Green ( - 1965 )
Park Royal ( - 1965 )
Pimlico ( - 1889 )
Ponders End
Primrose Hill ( - 1889 )
Rayners Lane ( - 1965 )
Shepherd's Bush ( - 1889 )
Soho ( - 1889 )
South Harrow ( - 1965 )
South Kensington ( - 1889 )
Strawberry Hill ( - 1965 )
Tufnell Park ( - 1889 )
Upper Holloway ( - 1889 )
West Holloway ( - 1889 )
West Kensington ( - 1889 )
West Kilburn ( - 1889 )
Westbourne Green ( - 1889 )
Whitehall ( - 1889 )
Borough
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Borough (metropolitan)
Hackney ( - 1889 )
Hammersmith ( - 1889 )
Hampstead ( - 1889 )
Holborn ( - 1889 )
Kensington ( - 1889 )
London (City of) ( - 1889 )
Paddington ( - 1889 )
Shoreditch ( - 1889 )
St. Marylebone ( - 1889 )
Stoke Newington ( - 1889 )
Westminster ( - 1889 )
Borough (municipal)
Acton ( - 1965 )
Brentford and Chiswick ( 1927 - 1965 )
Ealing ( - 1965 )
Edmonton ( - 1965 )
Enfield ( - 1965 )
Finchley ( - 1965 )
Harrow ( - 1965 )
Hendon ( - 1965 )
Heston and Isleworth ( 1894 - 1965 )
Hornsey ( - 1965 )
Southall ( - 1965 )
Southgate ( - 1965 )
Twickenham ( - 1965 )
Wembley ( - 1965 )
Willesden ( - 1965 )
Wood Green ( - 1974 )
Castle
Tower of London ( - 1889 )
Cemetery
St. Bartholomew the Great ( - 1889 )
Teddington Cemetery
Tower Hamlets Cemetery ( - 1889 )
Westminster Abbey ( 1245 - 1889 )
Civil parish
Glasshouse Yard ( - 1889 )
Gray's Inn ( - 1889 )
Hampton Wick ( - 1965 )
Laleham ( - 1965 )
St. Sepulchre Middlesex ( c 1800 - 1915 )
Staines ( - 1965 )
Stanwell ( - 1965 )
Sunbury ( - 1965 )
Westminster St. George Hanover Square ( 1724 - 1889 )
District
Lea Bridge (Hackney)
Southall Norwood
Stroud Green
West Harrow
Whetstone
Winchmore Hill
Woodside Park
Extra parochial area
Saffron Hill ( - 1889 )
Staple Inn ( - 1889 )
Tower of London ( - 1889 )
Former administrative division
St. Giles ( 1855 - 1900 )
Tower Division ( - 1889 )
Former parish
All Hallows Bread Street ( - 1878 )
All Hallows Honey Lane ( - 1894 )
All Hallows the Great ( - 1889 )
All Hallows the Less ( - 1894 )
Clerkenwell ( 1889 - 1965 )
Highgate ( - 1889 )
Holy Trinity the Less ( - 1666 )
St. Andrew Hubbard ( - 1666 )
St. Ann Blackfriars ( - 1666 )
St. Bartholomew Moor Lane ( - 1889 )
St. Bartholomew by the Exchange ( - 1840 )
St. Benet Fink ( - 1889 )
St. Benet Gracechurch ( - 1868 )
St. Benet Sherehog ( - 1666 )
St. Botolph Billingsgate ( - 1666 )
St. Christopher le Stocks ( - 1781 )
St. Dionis Backchurch ( - 1878 )
St. Faith under St. Paul's ( - 1889 )
St. Gabriel Fenchurch Street ( - 1666 )
St. Gregory by St. Paul ( - 1666 )
St. John Zachary ( - 1666 )
St. John the Baptist Walbrook ( - 1666 )
St. John the Evangelist Friday Street ( - 1666 )
St. Lawrence Pountney ( - 1666 )
St. Leonard Eastcheap ( - 1666 )
St. Leonard Foster Lane ( - 1666 )
St. Luke Old Street ( 1733 - 1889 )
St. Margaret Moses ( - 1666 )
St. Margaret New Fish Street ( - 1889 )
St. Martin Orgar ( - 1889 )
St. Martin Outwich ( - 1874 )
St. Martin Pomeroy ( - 1889 )
St. Martin Vintry ( - 1666 )
St. Mary Bothaw ( - 1666 )
St. Mary Colechurch ( - 1666 )
St. Mary Magdalen Milk Street ( - 1666 )
St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street ( - 1893 )
St. Mary Mounthaw ( - 1666 )
St. Mary Somerset ( - 1871 )
St. Mary Staining ( - 1666 )
St. Mary Woolchurch Haw ( - 1889 )
St. Matthew Friday Street ( - 1885 )
St. Michael Crooked Lane ( - 1831 )
St. Michael Queenhithe
St. Michael le Querne ( - 1666 )
St. Mildred Poultry ( - 1872 )
St. Nicholas Acons ( - 1666 )
St. Nicholas Olave ( - 1666 )
St. Nicholas Shambles ( - 1547 )
St. Olave Old Jewry ( - 1887 )
St. Olave Silver Street ( - 1666 )
St. Pancras Soper Lane ( - 1666 )
St. Peter Paul's Wharf ( - 1666 )
St. Peter Westcheap ( - 1666 )
St. Thomas Apostle ( - 1666 )
Hundred
Edmonton Hundred ( - 1889 )
Elthorne Hundred
Gore Hundred ( - 1889 )
Isleworth Hundred
Ossulstone Hundred ( - 1889 )
Spelthorne Hundred
Inhabited place
Brentford ( - 1965 )
Cowley ( - 1965 )
Enfield Town ( - 1965 )
Hatch End ( - 1965 )
Heathrow ( - 1965 )
Hounslow ( - 1965 )
London (City of) ( - 1889 )
Northwood ( - 1965 )
Potters Bar ( - 1965 )
Southall ( - 1965 )
Spring Grove ( - 1965 )
Westminster ( - 1889 )
Whitton ( - 1965 )
Military base
South Ruislip ( - 1965 )
Neighborhood
Aldgate ( - 1889 )
Angel ( - 1889 )
Barnsbury ( - 1889 )
Belgravia ( - 1889 )
Bishopsgate ( - 1889 )
Brick Lane ( - 1889 )
Camden Town ( - 1889 )
Covent Garden ( - 1889 )
Furnival's Inn ( - 1889 )
Gospel Oak ( - 1889 )
Kentish Town ( - 1889 )
Mayfair ( - 1889 )
Neasden ( - 1965 )
Pentonville ( - 1889 )
Somers Town ( - 1889 )
Tyburn ( - 1889 )
Parish
Acton ( - 1965 )
All Hallows Lombard Street ( 675 - 1889 )
All Hallows London Wall ( - 1889 )
All Hallows by the Tower ( 675 - 1889 )
Ashford ( - 1965 )
Bethnal Green ( - 1889 )
Bow ( - 1889 )
Bromley by Bow ( - 1889 )
Charterhouse ( - 1889 )
Chelsea ( - 1889 )
Chiswick
Christchurch Newgate Street ( - 1889 )
Cowley ( - 1965 )
Cranford ( - 1965 )
Ealing ( - 1965 )
East Bedfont ( - 1965 )
Edgware ( - 1965 )
Edmonton ( - 1965 )
Enfield Town ( - 1965 )
Enfield ( - 1965 )
Feltham ( - 1965 )
Finchley ( - 1965 )
Friern Barnet ( - 1965 )
Fulham ( - 1889 )
Greenford ( - 1965 )
Hammersmith ( - 1889 )
Hampstead ( - 1889 )
Hampton ( - 1965 )
Hanwell ( - 1965 )
Hanworth ( - 1965 )
Harefield ( - 1965 )
Harlington ( - 1965 )
Harmondsworth ( - 1965 )
Harrow Weald ( - 1965 )
Harrow ( - 1965 )
Hayes ( - 1965 )
Hendon ( - 1965 )
Heston ( - 1965 )
Hillingdon East ( - 1965 )
Hillingdon ( - 1965 )
Holborn ( - 1889 )
Holy Trinity Gough Square ( - 1889 )
Holy Trinity Minories ( - 1889 )
Hornsey ( - 1965 )
Ickenham ( - 1965 )
Isleworth ( - 1965 )
Islington ( - 1889 )
Kensington ( - 1889 )
Kingsbury ( - 1965 )
Liberty of the Rolls ( - 1889 )
Liberty of the Tower ( - 1889 )
Limehouse ( - 1889 )
Lincoln's Inn ( - 1889 )
Little Stanmore ( - 1965 )
Littleton ( - 1965 )
Mile End New Town ( - 1889 )
Mile End Old Town ( - 1889 )
Monken Hadley ( - 1889 )
New Brentford ( - 1965 )
Northolt ( - 1965 )
Norton Folgate ( - 1889 )
Norwood Green ( - 1965 )
Old Artillery Ground ( - 1889 )
Old Brentford ( 1894 - 1965 )
Old Tower Without ( - 1889 )
Paddington ( - 1889 )
Perivale ( - 1965 )
Pinner ( - 1965 )
Poplar ( - 1889 )
Precinct of the Savoy ( - 1889 )
Ratcliff ( - 1889 )
Ruislip ( - 1965 )
Shadwell ( - 1889 )
Shepperton ( - 1965 )
Shoreditch ( - 1889 )
South Hornsey ( 1865 - 1900 )
South Mimms ( - 1965 )
Southgate ( - 1965 )
Spitalfields ( - 1889 )
St. Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St. George the Martyr ( 1767 - 1889 )
St. Andrew Holborn Below the Bars ( - 1889 )
St. Andrew Undershaft ( - 1889 )
St. Andrew by the Wardrobe ( - 1889 )
St. Ann and St. Agnes ( - 1889 )
St. Bartholomew the Great ( - 1889 )
St. Bartholomew the Less ( - 1889 )
St. Benet Paul's Wharf ( - 1889 )
St. Botolph Without Aldersgate ( - 1889 )
St. Botolph Without Aldgate ( - 1889 )
St. Botolph Without Bishopsgate ( - 1889 )
St. Bride Fleet Street ( - 1889 )
St. Clement Eastcheap ( - 1889 )
St. Dunstan in the East ( - 1889 )
St. Dunstan in the West ( - 1889 )
St. Edmund the King and Martyr ( - 1889 )
St. Ethelburga ( - 1889 )
St. George Bloomsbury ( 1729 - 1889 )
St. George in the East ( - 1889 )
St. George the Martyr ( 1723 - 1767 )
St. Giles Without Cripplegate ( - 1889 )
St. Giles in the Fields ( 1563 - 1889 )
St. Helen Bishopsgate ( - 1889 )
St. James Duke's Place ( - 1889 )
St. James Garlickhithe ( - 1889 )
St. Katharine by the Tower ( - 1889 )
St. Katherine Coleman ( - 1889 )
St. Katherine Cree ( - 1889 )
St. Lawrence Jewry ( - 1889 )
St. Magnus the Martyr ( - 1889 )
St. Margaret Lothbury ( - 1889 )
St. Margaret Pattens ( - 1889 )
St. Martin Ludgate ( - 1889 )
St. Mary Abchurch ( - 1889 )
St. Mary Aldermanbury ( - 1889 )
St. Mary Aldermary ( - 1889 )
St. Mary Woolnoth ( - 1889 )
St. Mary le Bow ( - 1889 )
St. Marylebone ( - 1889 )
St. Michael Bassishaw ( - 1889 )
St. Michael Cornhill ( - 1889 )
St. Michael Paternoster Royal ( - 1889 )
St. Michael Wood Street ( - 1889 )
St. Mildred Bread Street ( - 1889 )
St. Nicholas Cole Abbey ( - 1889 )
St. Olave Hart Street ( - 1889 )
St. Pancras ( - 1889 )
St. Peter Cornhill ( - 1889 )
St. Peter le Poer ( - 1889 )
St. Sepulchre without Newgate ( - 1889 )
St. Stephen Coleman Street ( - 1889 )
St. Swithin London Stone ( - 1889 )
St. Vedast Foster Lane ( - 1889 )
Stanmore ( - 1965 )
Stepney St. Botolph Without Aldgate ( - 1889 )
Stepney ( - 1889 )
Stoke Newington ( - 1889 )
Teddington ( - 1965 )
Twickenham ( - 1965 )
Uxbridge ( - 1965 )
Wapping ( - 1889 )
Wealdstone ( - 1965 )
Wembley ( - 1965 )
West Drayton ( - 1965 )
West Twyford ( - 1965 )
Westminster Abbey ( 1245 - 1889 )
Westminster St. Anne Soho ( - 1889 )
Westminster St. Clement Danes ( - 1889 )
Westminster St. James Piccadilly ( 1684 - 1889 )
Westminster St. John the Evangelist ( 1727 - 1889 )
Westminster St. Luke ( 1841 - 1889 )
Westminster St. Margaret ( - 1889 )
Westminster St. Martin in the Fields ( - 1889 )
Westminster St. Mary le Strand ( - 1889 )
Westminster St. Paul Covent Garden ( - 1889 )
Westminster St. Paul's Covent Garden ( - 1889 )
Westminster ( - 1889 )
Whitechapel ( - 1889 )
Willesden ( - 1965 )
Wood Green ( - 1974 )
Yiewsley ( - 1965 )
Parish (ancient)
Hackney ( - 1889 )
Laleham ( - 1965 )
Staines ( - 1965 )
Stanwell ( - 1965 )
Sunbury ( - 1965 )
Tottenham ( - 1965 )
Place of worship
St. Mary Moorfields ( 1820 - 1889 )
St. Paul's Cathedral ( - 1889 )
Temple Church ( - 1889 )
Region
East London ( - 1965 )
Registration district
Barnet Registration District ( 1852 - 1946 )
Bethnal Green Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Bishopsgate Registration District ( 1837 - 1838 )
Brentford Registration District ( 1837 - 1947 )
Chelsea Registration District ( 1841 - 1889 )
Clerkenwell Registration District ( 1837 - 1869 )
Ealing Registration District ( 1947 - 1965 )
East London Registration District ( 1838 - 1869 )
Edmonton Registration District ( 1837 - 1965 )
Farringdon Registration District ( 1837 - 1838 )
Fulham Registration District ( 1875 - 1889 )
Hackney Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Hampstead Registration District ( 1848 - 1989 )
Harrow Registration District ( 1947 - 1965 )
Hendon Registration District ( 1837 - 1965 )
Holborn Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Islington Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Kensington Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
London City Registration District ( 1870 - 1901 )
Marylebone Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Mile End Old Town Registration District ( 1857 - 1889 )
Paddington Registration District ( 1885 - 1889 )
Pancras Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Poplar Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Shoreditch Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
South Middlesex Registration District ( 1947 - 1965 )
St. George Hanover Square Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
St. George in the East Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
St. Giles Registration District ( - 1900 )
St. Giles Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
St. James Westminster Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
St. Luke Registration District ( 1837 - 1869 )
St. Martin in the Fields Registration District ( 1837 - 1868 )
Staines Registration District ( 1837 - 1947 )
Stepney Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Strand Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Uxbridge Registration District ( 1837 - 1965 )
West London Registration District ( 1838 - 1869 )
Westminster Registration District ( 1870 - 1889 )
Westminster St. Margaret Registration District ( 1837 - 1870 )
Whitechapel Registration District ( 1837 - 1889 )
Willesden Registration District ( 1909 - 1965 )
Wood Green Registration District ( 1947 - 1965 )
Rural district
Hendon Rural ( 1894 - 1934 )
South Mimms Rural ( 1894 - 1934 )
Staines Rural ( 1894 - 1930 )
Uxbridge Rural ( 1894 - 1929 )
Suburb
Cockfosters ( - 1965 )
Crouch End ( - 1965 )
Dollis Hill ( - 1965 )
Eastcote ( - 1965 )
Golders Green ( - 1965 )
Hampton Wick ( - 1965 )
Hampton ( - 1965 )
Harrow Weald ( - 1965 )
Heston ( - 1965 )
Little Stanmore ( - 1965 )
Mill Hill ( - 1965 )
Muswell Hill ( - 1965 )
North Harrow ( - 1965 )
Osterley ( - 1965 )
Pinner ( - 1965 )
Rayners Lane ( - 1965 )
South Harrow ( - 1965 )
South Ruislip ( - 1965 )
St. Margarets ( - 1965 )
Stanmore ( - 1965 )
Strawberry Hill ( - 1965 )
Teddington ( - 1965 )
Whitton ( - 1965 )
Yiewsley and West Drayton ( 1929 - 1965 )
Yiewsley ( - 1965 )
Urban district
Acton ( - 1965 )
Brentford ( - 1965 )
Chiswick
Feltham ( - 1965 )
Greenford ( - 1965 )
Hampton ( - 1965 )
Hanwell ( - 1965 )
Harrow ( - 1965 )
Hayes and Harlington ( 1930 - 1965 )
Hendon ( - 1965 )
Heston and Isleworth ( 1894 - 1965 )
Potters Bar ( - 1965 )
South Hornsey ( 1865 - 1900 )
Sunbury ( - 1965 )
Teddington ( - 1965 )
Tottenham ( - 1965 )
Uxbridge ( - 1965 )
Wealdstone ( - 1965 )
Wembley ( - 1965 )
Yiewsley and West Drayton ( 1929 - 1965 )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England. It included the City of London within its territory until 1889, although the city was self-governing from the 13th Century.

In 1889 the administrative area of Middlesex was substantially reduced by the creation of the County of London, which also took in parts of Surrey and Kent.

In 1965, Middlesex was abolished for administrative purposes and most of its territory was added to Greater London. Two small parts of Middlesex did not join Greater London: the Potters Bar Urban District became administratively part of Hertfordshire, whilst the Staines and Sunbury were administratively transferred to Surrey.

Historical overview

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbouring ceremonial counties. Three rivers provide most of the county's boundaries; the Thames in the south, the Lea to the east and the Colne to the west. A line of hills forms the northern boundary with Hertfordshire.

Middlesex county's name derives from its origin as the Middle Saxon Province of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex, with the county of Middlesex subsequently formed from part of that territory in either the ninth or tenth century, and remaining an administrative unit until 1965. The county is the second smallest, after Rutland, of the historic counties of England.

The City of London became a county corporate in the 12th century; this gave it self-governance, and it was also able to exert political control over the rest of Middlesex as the Sheriff of London was given jurisdiction in Middlesex, though the county otherwise remained separate. To the east of the City, the Tower Division (or Tower Hamlets) had considerable autonomy under its own Lord Lieutenant.

As London expanded into rural Middlesex, the Corporation of London resisted attempts to expand the City of London boundaries into the county, posing problems for the administration of local government and justice. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the population density was especially high in the southeast of the county, including the East and West Ends of London. In 1855, in response to these challenges the densely populated southeast, together with sections of Kent and Surrey, came under the Metropolitan Board of Works for certain infrastructure purposes, while remaining a part of Middlesex.

When county councils were introduced in 1889, about 20% of the area of the historic county, along with a third of its population, was incorporated into the new administrative County of London, with the rest forming the administrative county of Middlesex, governed by the Middlesex County Council that met regularly at the Middlesex Guildhall in Westminster. Further suburban growth, stimulated by the improvement and expansion of public transport, and the setting up of new industries led to the creation of Greater London in 1965, an area which included almost all of the historic county of Middlesex, with the rest included in neighbouring ceremonial counties.[1]

Early history

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Middlesex.

Modern history

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Middlesex.

Middlesex Research Tips

Parts of Middlesex were absorbed into London in 1889 (Inner London), and some in 1965 (Outer London). Depending on the specific location and the year being investigated it may be necessary to check London records as well as those of Middlesex.

  • See wiki.familysearch.org under "Middlesex" for key information about the jurisdictions and records of Middlesex, plus links to indexes, reference aids and Family History Library holdings. As at October 2019 FamilySearch has updated its listings of Parish Registers, 1538-1912 for Westminster.
  • The London Metropolitan Archives (40 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0HB) holds records relating to the whole of Greater London. Ancestry (subscription necessary) has produced transcriptions and provides images of lists of baptisms, marriages, and burials in churches across Greater London. These lists start in 1813 and stretch into the 20th century.
  • The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex is a series of volumes available online through British History Online. The volumes were written over the past hundred or so years by a number of authors and cover various sections of Middlesex. A list of the volumes and what each contains can be found under the source Victoria History of the County of Middlesex
  • GENUKI has a long list of websites and archive holders in addition to London Metropolitan Archives above. (The list from GENUKI is not maintained so well that there is never a dead link in it. However, it is often worth googling the title given on the page just in case the contributor has reorganized their website.)
  • GENUKI has a separate page for Middlesex references.
  • GENUKI also has a list of the Archives and Local Studies Libraries for each of the boroughs of Greater London.
  • Registration Districts in Middlesex and Registration Districts in London, are lists of the registration districts used for civil registration (births, marriages and deaths, as well as the censuses). There are linked supporting lists of the parishes which made up each registration district, the dates of formation and abolition of the districts, the General Register Office numbers, and the local archive-holding place. This work has been carried out by Brett Langston under the agency of GENUKI (Genealogy United Kingdom and Ireland) and UKBMD - Births, Marriages, Deaths & Censuses on the Internet.
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