Lower Halstow, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Lower Halstow, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Lower Halstow, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Lower Halstow St Margaret Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Milton |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Milton |
| Registration District | Milton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1691 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1564 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Sittingbourne |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
HALSTOW, LOW (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union and hundred of Milton, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E division of Kent, 5½ miles NE from Sittingbourne.[1]
Lower Halstow is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, see Lower Halstow Wikipedia.
Little Halstow St Margaret of Antioch is an Ancient Parish on the estuary of the River Medway; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you and is one of six churches in a group The Six website.
The church dates from the 8th century and is therefore in part (later 12th, 13th and 14th century additions and restoration in 1913) one of England's oldest churches in use. The church has been designated a grade II listed building by English Heritage British listed building.
See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6 (1798), pp. 34-40 at British History Online and Kent Churches website.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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]
Lower Halstow parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = findmypast - (£)[2][3][4] | |||||
| FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers (FamilySearch) - free[5] |
| Lower Halstow Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1692-1876 | 1692-1837 | 1691-1812 | |||
| FS PRs | 1692-1876 | 1692-1837; 1756-1810 (banns) | 1692-1812 | |||
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
- Images for Lower Halstow available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1832
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
- Images for Lower Halstow available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832
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]
Census returns for Lower Halstow 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.
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. 379-383. Date accessed: 12 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish baptism records', Find My Past, accessed 5 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish marriage records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish burial records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 13 November 2013.
