Edgware Middlesex Family History Guide

Edgware is a chapelry of Kingsbury Ancient Parish in Middlesex. 

Alternative names: Edgeware, Eggesware

Other places in the parish include: Idlestree, Elstree, and Edgwarebury. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1717
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1630; 1639; 1800

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Co operative Society Shop Edgware LONDON 1920
Co operative Society Shop Edgware LONDON 1920

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EDGWARE, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district in Hendon district, Middlesex. The town stands on Watling-street, at the terminus of the London and Edgware railway, 4 miles NE of Harrow; is partly in Little Stanmore parish; was known formerly as Edgeware; consists chiefly of one street; was formerly a market town; has still a fair on the first Monday of Aug., with races on the two following days; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling-place; publishes a weekly newspaper; and has a post office under London, NW.

The parish includes also Edgwarebury and part of the village of Elstree. Acres, 1,979. Real property, £5,677. Pop., 705. Houses, 148. The property is not much divided. The manor belonged formerly to the Lonspées, the Lacys, and others; and belongs now to All-Souls college, Oxford. Canons, an adjacent estate in Little Stanmore parish, belonged to the first duke of Chandos, and belongs now to David Begg, Esq. A magnificent palace was built on it by the Duke of Chandos, at a cost of upwards of £250,000; and was the place where Handel composed much of his music, while acting as chapel-master to the Duke; but was pulled down in 1747.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, 493. Patron, Dr. John Lee. The church was rebuilt in 1845, but has the tower of a previous edifice. There are an Independent chapel, two national schools, and alms-houses with £131. Francis Coventry, the author of “Pompey the Little,” and Thomas Martyn, a Cambridge professor who died in 1797, were vicars. The sub-district contains four parishes. Acres, 6,737. Pop., 3,423. Houses, 651.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

War Memorial High Street Edgware Middlesex
War Memorial High Street Edgware Middlesex

Edgware Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Middlesex, Edgware – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions of Edgware Cemetery

St. Margaret’s, Edgware, Middlesex, monumental inscriptions

England, Middlesex, Edgware – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Edgware, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Middlesex, Edgware – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Edgware, 1630-1639
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Edgware (Middlesex)

Church records, 1834-1836
Author: Edgware Chapel (Little Stanmore, Middlesex : Independent)

England, Middlesex, Edgware – Directories ( 2 )
Kelly’s Barnet, Finchley, Hendon, Edgware & district directory : … the work comprises alphabetical lists of streets, private residents & tradesmen; and official information; also a new map of the district and a visitors’ guide to pleasure and health resorts

Kelly’s Barnet, Finchley, Hendon, Golders Green, Friern Barnet, Southgate and district directory : … the work comprises alphabetical lists of streets, private residents & tradesmen and official information; also a map of the district and a visitors’ guide to pleasure and health resorts

Middlesex Historical Directories

Administration

  • County: Middlesex
  • Civil Registration District: Hendon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
  • Diocese: London
  • Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
  • Poor Law Union: Hendon
  • Hundred: Gore
  • Province: Canterbury