Somers Town, Middlesex Genealogy

Guide to Somers Town, 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:

St Mary, Eversholt St, Somers Town (in modern day stands next to the Euston Railway Station) is a chapelry built--among at least 30 or more--in order to decrease the burden of population within the civil parish boundaries of St Pancras Parish. This church was built in 1826. In addition, another chapel in Somers Town, built to the name of St Mary's, was Somers Town St Mary, in 1852. To see a complete study on St Pancras and view a list of all of its churches and chapels, 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 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