Hi Lawrence No need to apologise - the administrative geography of London is very tricky, and this is a perfectly sensible question. One of the reasons why you couldn't find an easy answer is that the areas now familiar to Londoners as "Bayswater" and "Notting Hill" did not exist in their current forms (as residential areas within west central London) until the middle of the 19th century. They would have come under the Kensington RD at that time. Vincent Square would have come within the Westminster St Margaret RD until 1870 (when it was succeeded by St George Hanover Square). Note that the above refers to Registration Districts for the purposes of the registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths. Census registration districts are by no means always the same! Hope this helps Caroline > > > I am sorry to ask this question on this list again, but I am again > having trouble tracing parishes to Registration Districts. I have used > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bpefisk/fh/Middx/ to try to > answer my questions but am not sure of the answers. Can some kind > person help please? > > Which Reg District would Bayswater have come under in about 1845-1854? > And what about Notting Hill in the same period? > > I assume that Vincent Square, Westminster would have come under > Westminster but would also like confirmation. > > Thanks in advance > > Lawrence

Many thanks, Caroline and Dave. Caroline wrote: "Note that the above refers to Registration Districts for the purposes of the registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths. Census registration districts are by no means always the same!" Therein lay one of my problems. I have an 1851 and 1861 census giving Bayswater as the pob and 1881 and later giving Notting Hill. The children in question are almost certainly illegitimate but took the father's surname (in censuses and marriages), and I want to try to hunt for them, using forename(s), by searching on the appropriate Reg District in FreeBMD, through educated surmises about the mother's possible surname. So Kensington looks like the place to search under in the period 1845-1854. Thanks again Lawrence

I am trying to verify my great grandmothers roots The family I believe is per 1851 UK Census Richard Watts age 51 stone mason Sarah Watts age 41 Alfred age 13 Emily age 8 Rebecca age 3 all were born Middlesex Islington Looking for anyone researching this line for exhange of information and cooperative research. My link would be through great grandmother Rebecca Watts Have not located family in subsequent UK census. Rebecca married in Illinois in ca 1868 and died in Michigan in 1880. Located her with husband Alfred Thompson in 1870 and 1880 Census of Michigan. Don Chinnery Sun City Center FL USA