South Kensington St Luke, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to South Kensington St Luke, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
KENSINGTON (St. Mary), a parish, and the head of a union, in the Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2 miles W by S from London with the hamlet of Brompton. There are places of worship for Baptists and Independents; and a Roman Catholic chapel.

South Kensington, district and railway station, Kensington parish, Middlesex, the station is 1½ mile West of Victoria Station.

Additional information:

St Luke Kensington was a district church created in 1874. One of about 25 such chapelries built in mid-19th century, according to the large population demands in St Mary Abbots civil parish, within which boundaries it lay.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
South Kensington St Luke parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.


 * Records are also available at the London Metropolitan Archives.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Middlesex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Kensington on GENUKI