Margate Holy Trinity, Kent Genealogy

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Margate Holy Trinity

Guide to Margate Holy Trinity, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Margate Holy Trinity, Kent
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Ringslow or Isle of Thanet
County	Kent
Poor Law Union	Thanet
Registration District	Thanet
Records begin
Parish registers: 1842
Bishop's Transcripts: 1843
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Westbere
Diocese	Canterbury
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Location of Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

Margate is a seaside town in the Isle of Thanet and a civil parish in the Thanet district of Kent. See Margate Wikipedia For other places of worship in the town see Margate St John the Baptist, Kent

The church of Holy Trinity Margate was built in 1825-1829 and consecrated in 1829 Old Church history

Margate Trinity was formed from the Ancient Parish of Margate St John the Baptist, Kent as an ecclesiastical parish in 1842.

The church was bombed on 1 June 1943 and services from 1943-1956 were held in the church hall.

On donated land the new church of Holy Trinity was built in 1957 and consecrated on 26 June 1959 New Church history

See Kent Churches website

The parish is on the east of the town and neighbours Margate St John the Baptist, Kent and St Peter in Thanet, Kent

Resources

Civil Registration

Thanet Registration District

Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.

The Mansion House (Certificate Centre)
Grove Hill Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN1 1EP

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

Margate Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911 (FamilySearch) - free

FS Canterbury PRs = England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986 (FamilySearch) - free

FS BTs = England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911 (FamilySearch) - free

FS = FamilySearch - free

FREG = FreeREG - free

FMP Kent = Kent Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)

FMP Canterbury = Kent Canterbury Archdeaconry Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)

FMP East Kent = East Kent Marriage and Burial Indexes (FindMyPast) - ($)

BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free

FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free

FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free

Margate Holy Trinity Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS PRs	1538-1911		1538-1911		1538-1911
FS Canterbury PRs	1538-1986		1538-1986		1538-1986
FS BTs		1560-1911		1560-1911		1560-1911
FS	1538-1975		1538-1973		1538-1991
FREG	1538-1900s		1538-1900s		1538-1900s
FMP Kent	1538-1988		1538-1997		1538-2010
FMP Canterbury	1538-1918		1538-1934		1538-1998
FMP East Kent			1538-1754		1813-1841
BOYD			1538-1850
IGI
FS Catalog PRs
FS Catalog BTs

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.

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free.

Poor Law Unions

• Thanet Poor Law Union, Kent

Probate records

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.

• See England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Local Family History Centre

• Canterbury Family History Centre, Kent
  
• Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent
  

• 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

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free