Chelsea Christ Church, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Chelsea Christ Church, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Christ Church was consecrated on 26th June 1839. It was originally a Chapel of Ease to the parish church of St. Luke, Sydney Street, but was given its own parish in 1860.

In 1839 Chelsea was still an independent village separated from London by open countryside; however, there was pressure for development, particularly for the construction of streets of small cottages to house the numerous servants who were employed in the grand houses on Cheyne Walk and in the newly constructed streets and squares of Belgravia and Hans Town.

Christ Church was built as a church for these working class people and was designed to accommodate the maximum number of people at minimum cost. The construction cost was just over £4,000. (St. Luke’s Church, built 15 years earlier cost ten times this sum.)

The site for the new church was part of an extensive area of land used for market gardening, just off Flood Street, which was then one of Chelsea’s main shopping streets.

See this church's website for more historical background.

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Church of England
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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Probate Records
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Websites
Chelsea Christ Church on GENUKI