East Greenwich Christ Church, Kent Genealogy

Guide to East Greenwich, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
East Greenwich Christ Church Trafalgar Road was formed as an Ecclesiastical parish in 1840 from Greenwich St Alfege, Kent Ancient Parish.

The church was built 1846-1849 to design by John Brown and Robert Kerr. The church was declared redundant in 1987 and partly demolished, the remainder is a community centre (the Forum). The new church (built 1989) is adjacent but connected to the old church building. It is now within the East Greenwich Team Ministry.

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
East Greenwich Christ Church 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.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Census records
See Kent Census

Poor Law Unions
Greenwich Poor Law Union,Kent

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Kent 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
 * (courtesy: WeRelate)