East Greenwich Christ Church, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent   Kent Parishes 

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
Family History Library film numbers

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

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.

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