Knightsbridge Holy Trinity, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Knightsbridge Holy Trinity, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
KNIGHTSBRIDGE, a chapelry, partly in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, liberty of the city of Westminster, and partly in the parish of Kensington and Chelsea, Kensington division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is now a chapel of ease. The present building was erected in 1789. A district church dedicated to St. Paul, the site of which was given by the late Marquess of Westminster, has been erected in Wilton Place. Here is a place of worship for Baptists.

Knightsbridge, a quondam hamlet, now a metropolitan suburb, and three chapelries, [all lying with-]in the City of Westminster parishes of St George Hanover Square, and (probably especially in the parish of) St Margaret Westminster, and in the parish of Kensington, and Chelsea.

Here's a list of chapels all associated with and contiguous to this chapelry (Holy Trinity Knightsbridge):
 * St George's Hospital Grosvenor Place chapel - 1733
 * Lazar House or hospital Chapel, (Holy Trinity) Albert Gate - 1595 (Later became Holy Trinity Church 1861)
 * St Paul Chapel Wilton Place - 1840 (See also chapelry of St Barnabas Pimlico, in St George Hanover Square)
 * All Saints Church - 1849

By 1870, a Baptist chapel was built in this hamlet.

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Middlesex ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Middlesex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

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.

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Websites
Knightsbridge in St George Hanover Square on GENUKI