Stanwell Middlesex Family History Guide

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Stanwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Middlesex.

Other places in the parish include: Poyle and Colnbrook.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1623
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1630; 1800

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Stanwell Parish Registers

Stanwell Marriages 1632 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

STANWELL, a village and a parish in Staines district, Middlesex. The village stands 2¼ miles NE of Staines r. station, and has a post-office under Staines.

The parish contains also Staines workhouse, Poyle hamlet, and part of Colnbrook. Acres, 3,963. Real property, £11,012. Pop., 1,714. Houses, 314. The property is subdivided.

The manor belonged, from the Norman conquest till 1541, to the Windsors; went then, by an exchange, to the Crown; was the death-place of the Princess Mary, daughter of James I.; passed to the Knyvets and the Falklands; and, with S. Place, belongs now to Sir J. Gibbons, Bart. There are paper mills, and two large flour mills.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £300. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is later English and good. There are an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £40 a year, a national school for girls, and charities £220. Judge Nares was a native; and Ryves, the author of “Mercurins Rusticus,” was vicar.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Middlesex, Stanwell – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Stanwell, Middlesex, 1630-1631
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stanwell (Middlesex)

Church records, 1820-1837
Author: Poyle Chapel (Stanwell : Independent)

Marriages at Stanwell, 1632-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stanwell (Middlesex)

England, Middlesex, Stanwell – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Stanwell, Poyle Independent, Lond., Eng

Parish register printouts of Stanwell, Surrey, England (Independent, Poyle) ; christenings, 1820-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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