> From: Derrick Porter > Sent: 06 January 2012 11:22 > > I am looking at a marriage certificate from 1877. The marriage > took place in St John's Church in the parish of St Luke, Chelsea. The > problem is the residence of the groom (and bride) which is: > > 30 F. Street, Queen's Park > > If this was Washington DC I wouldn't have a problem but I have > never some across this sort of address anywhere in the UK, least > of all in London. This is correct. There were a series of streets in the Queen's Park area of Chelsea parish given letter names. They were later renamed with names beginning with that letter. According to the 1881 census street index F Street is the same as Farrant Street. There were also First Avenue, Second Avenue etc. which retain their names today. If you look at a modern map you can still pick out A to O Streets in the area between Harrow Road and Kilburn Lane. http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Place:Chelsea_Registration_District,_1881_Census_Street_Index_C-F see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Park,_London#Queen.27s_Park_Estate Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - [email protected] Bodimeade genealogy:   http://www.one-name.org/homepages/bodimeade/ My family history:     http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ GenUKI Middx + London: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/ + ../LND/