Guide to Mareston, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
MERSTON (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of North Aylesford, hundred of Shamwell, lathe of Aylesford, W.division of Kent, 4¼ miles ESE from Gravesend. This place is parochial in its ecclesiastical jurisdiction, but in other respects is part of Shorne. [1]
MERSTON, a hamlet in Shorne parish, Kent; 2 miles NW of Strood railway station. [2]
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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.
Mareston parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911 (FamilySearch) - free
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FS Canterbury PRs = England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986 (FamilySearch) - free
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FS BTs = England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911 (FamilySearch) - free
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FS = FamilySearch - free
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FREG = FreeREG - free
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FMP Kent = Kent Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)
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FMP Canterbury = Kent Canterbury Archdeaconry Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)
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FMP East Kent = East Kent Marriage and Burial Indexes (FindMyPast) - ($)
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BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free
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IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3]
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FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free
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FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free
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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.
Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.
Family History Library film numbers
Mareston
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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 are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
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