Dartford, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Dartford, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Dartford, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Dartford Holy Trinity Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Axton, Dartford and Wilmington |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Dartford |
| Registration District | Dartford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1561 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1718 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Dartford |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester; Post-1844 - Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
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Parish History =[edit | edit source]
DARTFORD (Holy Trinity), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 15 miles SE from London, and 22 NW from Maidstone, on the great road from London to Canterbury and Dover.[1]
Dartford is a town and borough in the Dartford district of Kent Dartford Wikipedia
Dartford Holy Trinity is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester Dartford deanery; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you.
The church has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building.
See Kent Archeological Society and Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 286-328. British History Online and Kent Churches website
Other Anglican parishes formed from this parish include:
- St Alban St Albans Road
- Christ Church dating from 1909; the church has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building see Kent Churches website.
See Dartford North West Kent Family History Society.
Other places of worship in Dartford include:
- St Anselm Roman Catholic Church.
- The Methodist Church Kent Road Dartford dates from 1844-1845 and has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building.
- Wesleyan Waterside Chapel. (1798).
- Methodist Church Spital Street.
- Primitive Methodist East Hill
- The Zion Strict Baptist Chapel Essex Road Dartford has been designated as a grade II listed building and dates from 1794 British listed building.
- Baptist Brent Chapel, East Hill. (c.1880).
- Baptist Highfield Road
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
See Dartford registration District
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[edit | edit source]
Dartford Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£) | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| MED = Medway Ancestors - free[4] |
| Dartford Holy Trinity Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1718-1843 | 1718-1839 | ||||
| FREG | 1561-1908 | 1561-1955 | 1561-1926 | |||
| IGI | 1561-1812 | 1561-1812, 1840-1843 | ||||
| MED | 1561-1984 | 1561-1984 | 1561-1984 | |||
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Nonconformists
- Lovefield Street Independent Christenings 1797-1837 Batch (C068141)
- Waterside Wesleyan Christenings 1811-1837 Batch (C068151)
- Zion Independent Christenings 1820-1822; 1832-1833 Batch (C068131)
Dartford Christchurch parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Dartford Christchurch Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1910-1935 | |||||
| MED | 1910-1970 | 1910-1954 | ||||
Dartford St Alban the Martyr parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Dartford St Alban the Martyr Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1903-1910 | |||||
| MED | 1903-1982 | 1903-1954 | 1903-1910; 1923-1937 (funerals) | |||
Dartford St Edmund King and Martyr parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Dartford St Edmund King and Martyr Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1903-1910 | |||||
| MED | 1956-1999 | |||||
Non-Conformists (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Dartford Census returns 1841-1891
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
- Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK.
- Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable).
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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.
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
East Hill and Watling Street Cemetery in Dartford burials have been indexed from 1856 through 1870 at FreeREG - free.
Local Family History Centre[edit | edit source]
- FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 8-15. Date accessed: 22 July 2013.
- ↑ 'Kent Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 15 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Medway Ancestors Imagebase: list of parishes, in alphabetical order', Cityark, accessed 8 November 2013.
