Lower Walmer St Saviour, Kent Genealogy

England

Kent

Lower Walmer St Saviour

Lower Walmer St Saviour

Parish History

Lower Walmer St Saviour is an Ecclesiastical parish created from the Ancient Parish of Walmer, Kent in order to relieve pressure on the medieval pressure with the growth of the town.

The church was built in 1848 as a chapel of ease on the seafront for the boatmen and their families

Architecturally it was the inspiration for the lifeboat building which was built in 1871

Walmer Lifeboat Station

Resources

Civil Registration

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

Lower Walmer St Saviour 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

Lower Walmer St Saviour 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

• See Kent Census

Poor Law Unions

• Eastry 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.

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