Kentish Town St John the Baptist, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Kentish Town St John the Baptist, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
KENTISH TOWN, a chapel of ease was created in 1804, in the parish of St. Pancras, Holborn division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 3 miles N from London. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.

St John the Baptist Kentish Town, St Pancras was created as a chapel of ease (chapelry) in the year 1804; it stood within the parish boundaries of St Pancras.

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
Kentish Town St John the Baptist 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.

1600 Lay Subsidy

 * 1600 - Lay Subsidy Returns for London, Middlesex, Surrey (north) 1593-1600: Kentishetowne (TNA E179/142/234) at Alan H. Nelson website - free

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
Kentish Town in St Pancras on GENUKI