Somers Town Christ Church, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Somers Town Christ Church, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SOMERS TOWN, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Pancras, Holborn division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 2 miles NW from St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Additional information:

Christ Church, Chalton Street, Somers Town church was "created in 1868 from All Saints Kings Cross (All Saints Battle Bridge). It was one of among at least 30 other churches built in the mid-19th century in order to decrease the tremendous burden of population within the large civil parish of St Pancras, in which parish it resides. To see a complete study on St Pancras and for a List of Churches and Chapels in St Pancras, see "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
Somers Town 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.


 * 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
Somers Town in St Pancras on GENUKI