Colnbrook, Middlesex Genealogy

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

Parish History
COLNBROOK, a small town and a chapelry on the mutual border of Middlesex and Buckinghamshire. The town stands on the River Colne, 4¼ north by west of Staines. The chapelry is in the parishes of Stanwell, Horton, Iver, and Langley Marsh. Its chapel was built in 1869. There was also a Baptist chapel here. It stood 17 miles west by south of London, on the road to Bath. There was a Baptist chapel of worship.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain