Staines Middlesex Family History Guide
Staines is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Middlesex. Ashford and Laleham are chapelries of Staines.
Alternative names: Staines upon Thames
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Egham, Surrey
- Chertsey, Surrey
- Thorpe, Surrey
- Ashford
- Horton, Buckinghamshire
- Wyrardisbury, Buckinghamshire
- Laleham
- Stanwell
Staines Parish Registers
The Parish Registers of Staines, Middlesex 1644 to 1694 Publisher: Frederick Arthur Crisp Date of publication: 1886. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STAINES, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Middlesex. The town stands on the river Thames, near the influx of the river Colne, and on the Southwestern railway, at the junction of the line to Windsor, 6 miles SE of Windsor.
It took its name from an ancient stone on the boundary of the City of London’s jurisdiction of the Thames; was known to the Romans as Pontes, to the Saxons as Stane; stood anciently amid a forest which, till 1227, extended to Hounslow; was the place where the Danes crossed the Thames, in 1009, after burning Oxford.
It is a seat of petty sessions, and governed by two constables and four head-boroughs; publishes a weekly newspaper; carries on brewing and mustard-manufacture; and has a head post-office, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, a chief inn, a disused market house, a police station, a bridge erected in 1832 at a cost of more than £40,000, a neat modern church, four dissenting chapels, a literary and scientific institution erected in 1835, a national school, a Lancasterian school, a school of industry, charities £20, a weekly market on Friday, and fairs on 11 May and 19 Sept. Pop. in 1861, 2,584. Houses, 526.
The parish comprises 1,844 acres. Real property, £14,176. Pop. in 1851, 2,577; in 1861, 2,749. Houses, 557. The manor belongs to R. Taylor, Esq. Yoveney also is a manor; and Hammonds, Duncroft House, Shortwood Common, and Withygate are chief places. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £300. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. Inigo Jones was a resident.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Staines
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Staines
- Hundred: Spelthorne
- Province: Canterbury