

This project is for those interred in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.All of the graves from the Cross Street Cemetery were moved here between 1956-1958 to make way for the building of the Interstate Route 93.This cemetery contains all the GR2 Cross Street Cemetery records from the "Vital Records of Medford Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849." Notable Interme...
People connected to Middlesex== Historic County of England See also>===== Middlesex - Main Page >===== People buried in Highgate Cemetery >===== London & Middlesex Genealogical Resources >===== Historic Buildings of Middlesex inc. London
London and Middlesex Genealogical Resources Image Right - Public Record Office - Kew >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Mark Pepall and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . The purpose of this project is to outline the regional resources available for research in London and Middlesex, both geographical/physical and online.
ENGLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects=This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in ENGLAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in Engla...
Hampton Court Palace, London, England= Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, in the historic county of Middlesex, and within the postal town East Molesey, Surrey. It has not been inhabited by the British Royal Family since the 18th century. The palace is 11.7 miles (18.8 kilometres) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of centr...
Kensington Palace, London, England= Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Ken...
Westminster & Palace of Westminster, London, England====Ashburnham House=== Ashburnham House is an extended seventeenth-century house on Little Dean's Yard in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, and since 1882 has been part of Westminster School. It is occasionally open to the public, when its staircase and front drawing room in particular can be seen to be superb. There has been a building on...
Saint James Anglican Cemetery is located at the Lot 25, concession 2, Biddulph township.Cemetery Location: 34092 St. James Drive Clandeboye, ON==Links== Canada Gen Web's Cemetery Project Find A Grave Canadian Headstones.com
Early History of Charlestown== Thomas Walford and his wife Jane Walford (Guy) were the original English settlers of Mishawaum (later Charlestown); they settled there in 1624. They were given a grant by Sir Robert Gorges, with whom they had settled at Wessagusset (Weymouth) in September 1623. John Endicott, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, had sent William, Richard and Ralph Sprague t...
The Berners Family seems to be largely descended from the Norman lord Hugh de Berners , an Anglicised version of Hugo de Bernières. There are a number of locations with that name , but this is believed to be Bernières-d'Ailly near Caen.===Aims===To track the main Berners line and try and figure out where the other Berners lines fit in and to track down the various Barnes lines that are also des...
Admiralty House, London, Middlesex, England= Admiralty House is a four-storey building of yellow brick. The rear facade is of five bays and faces Horse Guards Parade, with a basement-level exit under the corner of the Old Admiralty Building. The front of the house faces Whitehall; its main entrance is in the corner of the Ripley Courtyard, cutting through the corner of the older Ripley Building...
Charterhouse, London, England= The London Charterhouse is a historic complex of buildings in Smithfield, London dating back to the 14th century. It occupies land to the north of Charterhouse Square. The Charterhouse began as (and takes its name from) a Carthusian priory, founded in 1371 and dissolved in 1537. Substantial fragments remain from this monastic period, but the site was largely rebui...
Carlton House , London, Middlesex, England= Carlton House was a mansion in London, best known as the town residence of the Prince Regent for several decades from 1783. It faced the south side of Pall Mall, and its gardens abutted St. James's Park[1] in the St James's district of London. The location of the house, now replaced by Carlton House Terrace, was a main reason for the creation of John ...
Arundel House, London, Middlesex, England= Arundel House , was a London town-house or palace located between the Strand and the River Thames, near St Clement Danes. It was originally the town house of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, during the Middle Ages. In 1539 it was given to William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton . It reverted to the Crown on Fitzwilliam's death and was granted in 1545 to...
Links to Middlesex County Cemeteries=Cemeteries are listed under their historical township location (current municipality)===London===* Elsie Perrin Williams Property Cemetery* Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens * Grove / Webster Cemetery * Hope / Proudfoot Cemetery* Islamic Cemetery of London* Middlesex County Jail / London City Jail Cemetery* Mount Pleasant Cemetery & Crematorium * Oakland / Proud...
Eddie Cemetery == Cemetery Location: 4490 Glendon Dr (Hwy 14),Glencoe Concession 2, Lot 18, Ekfrid Township GPS: 42.775362,-81.679896 Maintained by: Eddie Cemetery==Links== Canada Gen Web's Cemetery Project Find A Grave
Buckingham Palace (Buckingham House) London, England= Buckingham Palace (UK /ˈbʌkɪŋəm/ /ˈpælɪs/[1][2]%29 is the London residence and principal workplace of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.[3] Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing. Origina...
McRae Cemetery Cemetery Location: 3874 Hyndman Drive, Southwest Middlesex Range 2S, Lot 23, Ekfrid Township GPS: 42.712293,-81.645759 Maintained by: Municipality of Southwest Middlesex.==Links== Canada Gen Web's Cemetery Project Find A Grave
Kilmartin Cemetery Cemetery Address: 24452 Dundonald Rd., Rd 80, Kilmartin Concession 13, Lot 24, Metcalfe Township GPS: 42.801801,-81.781127 Denomination: Kilmartin Church. Presbyterian Maintained by: Kilmartin Cemetery Board==Links== Gen Web's Cemetery Project Find A Grave
Mansion House, London, England======Image Right by Arpingstone at English Wikipedia Public domain Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is used for some of the City of London's official functions, including an annual dinner, hosted by the Lord Mayor, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer customarily gives a speech – his "Mansion House Speech" – about the s...
Keats House, London, England= Keats House is a museum[2] in a house once occupied by the Romantic poet John Keats. It is in Keats Grove, Hampstead, north London. Maps prior to ca.1915[3] show the road with one of its earlier names, John Street; the road has also been known as Albion Grove. The building was originally a pair of semi-detached houses known as "Wentworth Place". John Keats lodged i...
Newcastle House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England=Newcastle House is a mansion in Lincoln's Inn Fields in central London, England. It was one of the two largest houses built in London's largest square during its development in the 17th century, the other being Lindsey House. It is the northernmost house on the western side of the square.The house had a complex history. The first version wa...
Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, England= Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum.The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. The late 17th century was Bloomsbury's most fashionable era, an...
The Albany, Piccadilly, London, Middlesex,England= The Albany, or simply Albany , is an apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.===Building===The Albany was built in 1770–74 by Sir William Chambers for Viscount Melbourne ' as Melbourne House. It is a three-storey mansion, seven bays (windows) wide, with a pair of service wings flanking a front courtyard. In 1791, Prince Frederick, Duke of York ...
Chapel House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, London, Middlesex, England= Chapel House, now No. 15, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, is a house in Greater London, England. The house has also been called Tennyson House and Holyrood House.[1] It was occupied at one time by Alfred Lord Tennyson , and poet Walter de la Mare lived in the same row nearly a hundred years later. The house was owned for many yea...
Strawberry Hill House, London, England= Strawberry Hill House, often referred to simply as Strawberry Hill , is the Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London by Horace Walpole from 1749. It is the type example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture,[1] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic revival.Walpole rebuilt the existing house in stages starting in ...
Lancaster House, London, England= Lancaster House (previously known as York House and Stafford House) is a mansion in the St James's district in the West End of London. It is close to St. James's Palace and much of the site was once part of the palace complex. This Grade I listed building[1][2] is now managed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.===History===Construction of the house commence...
Marble Hill House, London, England= Marble Hill House is a Palladian villa built between 1724 and 1729 in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The compact design soon became famous and furnished a standard model for the Georgian English villa and for plantation houses in the American colonies.===Description===Marble Hill House was built in 1724–1729 by Henrietta Howard, Cou...
Chiswick House, London, England= Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick. Arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London, the house was designed by Lord Burlington, and completed in 1729. The house and gardens, which occupy 26.33 hectares (65.1 acres),[1] mainly created by architect and landscape designer William Kent, is one of the earlie...
Leighton House Museum, London, England= The Leighton House Museum is a museum in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea in London. The former home of the painter Frederic, Lord Leighton, it has been open to the public since 1929.===The house===Built for Leighton by the architect and designer George Aitchison, it is a Grade II* listed building. It is noted for its elaborate Oriental...
St. Jame's Square, Lonond, England= St. James's Square is the only square in the exclusive St James's district of the City of Westminster. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture and a private garden in the centre. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential address in London. It is now home to the headquarters of a numb...
Historic Buildings of Middlesex ===England> now mostly part of Greater London, with small sections in neighbouring counties. Image right - Tower of London as seen from the Shard ===== Image by © Hilarmont (Kempten), CC BY-SA 3.0 de, WIKI The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Middlesex, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings ...
Vanbrugh Castle, London, England= Vanbrugh Castle is the house designed and built by John Vanbrugh for his own family, located on Maze Hill on the eastern edge of Greenwich Park in London, to the north of Blackheath, with views to the west past the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich down to the Thames reaching as far as the Houses of Parliament.The castle was designed and built after Vanbrugh ha...
Sir John Soane's House (museum), London, England= Sir John Soane's Museum was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane. It holds many drawings and models of Soane's projects and the collections of paintings, drawings and antiquities that he assembled.The museum is in the Holborn area of central London, adjacent to Lincoln's Inn Fields. It is a non-departmental public body...
Schomberg House, Pall Mall, London, England= Schomberg House is a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in central London which has a colourful history. Only the street facade survives today. It was built for The 3rd Duke of Schomberg, a Huguenot general in the service of the British Crown.[1] It was adapted from Portland House, which in turn has been created by the Countess of Portland by con...
Lansdowne House, London, England= Lansdowne House is a building to the southwest of Berkeley Square in central London, England. It was designed by Robert Adam as a private house and for most of its time as a residence it belonged to the Petty-FitzMaurice family, Marquesses of Lansdowne. Since 1935, it has been the home of the Lansdowne Club. The positioning of the property was rather unusual. I...
Trent Park, London, England= Trent Park is an English country house, together with its former extensive grounds, in north London. The original great house and a number of statues and other structures located within the grounds (such as the Orangery) are Grade II listed buildings. The site is designated as Metropolitan Green Belt, lies within a conservation area, and is also included within the ...
Osterley Park, London, England= Osterley Park is a mansion set in a large park of the same name. It is in the London Borough of Hounslow, part of the western suburbs of London.When the house was built it was surrounded by rural countryside. It was one of a group of large houses close to London which served as country retreats for wealthy families, but were not true country houses on large agric...
Lambeth Palace, London, England= Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, in north Lambeth, on the south bank of the River Thames, 400 m[1] south-east of the Palace of Westminster which has the Houses of Parliament on the opposite bank. The building – originally called the Manor of Lambeth or Lambeth House – has been the London residence of the...
Cambridge House, Piccadilly, London, England= Cambridge House is a grade I listed mansion on the northern side of Piccadilly (Number 94) in central London, England, named after one of its owners, the Duke of Cambridge, 7th son of George III. It has also been known as Egremont House, Cholmondeley House, The Naval and Military Club, and the In and Out Club.===History===The house was built for Cha...
Bromley Hall, London, Middlesex, England= Bromley Hall is an early Tudor period manor house in Bow, Tower Hamlets, London. The Hall is thought to be the oldest brick house in London and was built by Holy Trinity Priory in the 1490s on the foundations of the 12th century Lower Bramerley Manor. These remain visible today in the cellar. The Hall was seized in 1531 during the Dissolution of the Mon...
Swakeleys House, Ickenham, London, England= Swakeleys House is a Grade I-listed[1] 17th-century mansion in Ickenham, London Borough of Hillingdon,[2] built in 1638 for the future Lord Mayor of London, Edmund Wright . Originally the home of the lords of the manor of Swakeleys, writer Samuel Pepys visited the house twice. The property changed hands many times over the years and at one time was ho...
Forty Hall, London, England= Forty Hall is a manor house of the 1620s in Forty Hill in Enfield, north London. The house, a Grade I listed building, is today used as a museum by the London Borough of Enfield. Within the grounds is the site of the former Tudor Elsyng Palace.===Location===Forty Hall is located in the north of the London Borough of Enfield, the northernmost borough of London. The h...
Ely Place, London, England= Ely Place is a gated road at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden in London, England. It is the location of the historic Ye Olde Mitre public house and is adjacent to Hatton Garden. It is the last privately owned street in London, having been originally set up as an exclave of Cambridgeshire for the Bishops of Ely, and is managed to this day by its own bo...
Kew Palace, London, England= Kew Palace is a British royal palace in Kew Gardens on the banks of the Thames up river from London. There have been at least three palaces at Kew, and two have been known as Kew Palace; the first building may not have been known as Kew as no records survive other than the words of another courtier. One palace survives and is open to visitors. Grade I listed,[1] it ...
Witanhurst, Highgate, London, England= Witanhurst is a large Grade II listed early 20th-century Georgian Revival mansion located on 5 acres (2.0 ha) in Highgate, North-West London. The house has had several prominent owners since being rebuilt by the soap magnate Sir Arthur Crosfield, and after several decades of increasing dilapidation is currently undergoing refurbishment after its 2008 sale ...
Hillingdon House, London, England= Hillingdon House is a Grade II listed mansion in Hillingdon, Greater London. The original house was built in 1717 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Schomberg. It was destroyed by fire and the present house was built in its place in 1844.The British Government purchased Hillingdon House in 1915 and it became a military hospital. In 1917, what would become the ...
Bedford House, Bloomsbury, London, Middlesex, England= Bedford House , is an estate in central London, owned by the Russell family who possess the peerage of Duke of Bedford. The estate was originally based in Covent Garden,[1] then stretched to include Bloomsbury in 1669.[2] The Covent Garden property was sold for £2 million in 1913, by Herbrand Russell , 11th Duke of Bedford to the MP and lan...
Fulham Palace, London, England= Fulham Palace in Fulham, London (formerly in Middlesex), England, at one time the main residence of the Bishop of London, is of medieval origin. It was the country home of the Bishops of London from at least 11th century until 1975, when it was vacated. It is still owned by the Church of England, although managed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham an...
Kensington House, London, Middlesex, England====Introduction===Colby House and Kensington House, a pair of major houses which formerly stood next to one another on the south side of Kensington High Street at its eastern extermity; their short-lived successor, the second Kensington House, lavishly built by Baron Grant in 1873–6 but never permanently occupied; and Kensington Court, a development ...
Kenwood House, London, England= Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a former stately home, in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath. It is managed by English Heritage, and normally open to the public. The house was closed for major renovations from 2012 until late 2013.[1]The house is best known for the artwork it houses. ===History===The original house ...
York House, Twickenham, London, England= York House is an historic stately home in Twickenham, England, and currently serves as the Town Hall of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is situated in Richmond Road, near the centre of Twickenham, close to St Mary's Church. ===History===Unlike several other UK buildings also called York House, the Twickenham building did not take its name ...
Dorchester House, London, England=Dorchester House was a mansion in Park Lane, London, built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the present Dorchester Hotel. ===Overview===Lewis Vulliamy who was a notable architect of that time was instructed to build a house in which a central staircase was a major feature.[1] The main purpose of the building was to ho...
Savoy Palace, London, England= The Savoy Palace , considered the grandest nobleman's townhouse of medieval London, was the residence of John of Gaunt until it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. It lay between the Strand and the River Thames – the present Savoy Theatre and Savoy Hotel were named in its memory. In the locality of the palace the administration of law was by a special j...
Hogarth's House, London, England= Hogarth's House is the former country home of the 18th century English artist William Hogarth in Chiswick, adjacent to the A4. The House now belongs to the London Borough of Hounslow and is open to visitors free of charge. Chiswick is now one of London's western suburbs, but in the 18th century it was a large village or small town quite separate from the metrop...
Devonshire House, London, England= Devonshire House in Piccadilly was the London residence of the Dukes of Devonshire in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was built for William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire in the Palladian style, to designs by William Kent. Completed circa 1740, empty after World War I, it was demolished in 1924.Many of Britain's great peers maintained large London houses th...
Queen's House, Greenwich, London, England= The Queen's House, Greenwich , is a former royal residence built between 1616–1635 in Greenwich, then a few miles downriver from London, and now a district of the city. Its architect was Inigo Jones, for whom it was a crucial early commission, for Anne of Denmark, the queen of King James I of England. The Queen's House is one of the most important buil...
Pitzhanger Manor, London, England= Pitzhanger Manor House, in Ealing (west London), was owned from 1800 to 1810 by the architect John Soane, who radically rebuilt it. Soane intended it as a country villa for entertaining and eventually for passing to his elder son. He demolished most of the existing building except the two-storey south wing built in 1768 by George Dance, who had been his first ...
Boston Manor House, Middlesex, London, England= Boston Manor was one of the ancient manors of Middlesex. It has now been assimilated into the London Borough of Hounslow west London, England. Its Jacobean manor house of 1622 still stands in what is now Boston Manor Park. ==History of the former Manor of Boston==The earliest reference to Boston (or Bordwadestone as it was then spelled) was around...
Leicester Square (incl. Leicester House), London, England= Leicester Square Listeni/ˈlɛstər/ is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. It was laid out in 1670 and is named after the contemporary Leicester House, itself named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester .The square was originally a gentrified residential area, with notable tenants including Frederick, Prince o...
Northumberland House (Suffolk House), London, England= Northumberland House (also known as Suffolk House when owned by the Earls of Suffolk) was a large Jacobean townhouse in London, which was so called because for most of its history it was the London residence of the Percy family, who were the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland, and one of England's richest and most prominent aristocrati...