Kensington St Clement, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Kensington St Clement, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Kensington, parliamentary borough and parish, Middlesex, in W of London. The Kensington Gardens (300 acres), which extend to Hyde Park and Kensington Palace (the property of the Crown since the time of William III), in which Queen Victoria was born. It was made a parliamentary borough in 1885.

St Clement Kensington was a district church built in the year 1867. It stood within the civil parish boundaries of St Mary Abbots Kensington.

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
Kensington St Clement 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.

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
Kensington on GENUKI