Bexley, Kent Genealogy

England Kent  Kent Parishes

Guide to Bexley, Kent family history and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
BEXLEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Dartford, partly in the hundred of Lessness, but chiefly in the hundred of Ruxley, lathe of Sutton-AtHone, W. division of Kent, 3 miles (W.) from Dartford.

Bexley is a a town in the London Borough of Bexley Bexley Wikipedia.

Bexley St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in Kent Church Website which included within the parish boundary Lamorbey Bexleyheath and part of Welling. Lamorbey Park was developed see also Lamorbey Wikipedia

See Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 162-183 at British History Online and Kent Churches website

See Bexley North West Kent Family History Society and Bexley St Mary

Other parishes fromed from the Ancient Parish include

Lamorbey Holy Trinity Halfway Street see Lamorbey Holy Trinity and Kent Churches website

St John Park Hill Road St John Park Hill Road Kent Churches website

Bexleyheath The Broadway Bexleyheath Christ Church Kent Churches website

Other places of worship include

Baptist: The Broadway, Bexleyheath. Established 1827, demolished 1956.

Bexleyheath Trinity Baptist

Bethany Wesleyan Methodist Bexleyheath North St Methodist Church

Albany Park Baptist Church, Stansted Crescent, Bexley Church website St John Fisher Roman Catholic Church, Thanet Road, Bexley Strict Baptist Chapel, Bourne Road, Bexley United Reformed Church, Hurst Road, Bexley Our Lady of Angels

Congregational: Chapel Rd, Bexleyheath. Built 1853-4, demolished 1987.

Civil Registration
See Dartford registration District Sidcup Registration District Bexley 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
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre is the Diocesan Record Office for all the Church of England Parishes within the London Borough of Bexley reference PA23 St Mary's, Bexley 1565-2002

Barnes Cray parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Bexley Heath parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Lamorbey registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Land Tax
Images for Bexley are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1831

Census records
Census returns for Bexley 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. to locate local Family History Centres in UK 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.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Dartford 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)

Cemeteries
Bexleyheath Cemetery burials from 1879 through 1897 are available online at FreeREG - free.

Local Family History Centre
Orpington 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