Dartford St Edmund King and Martyr, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
"DARTFORD, a parish, market and petty sessions town, in the hundred of Axton, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, in the county of Kent, 17 miles from London, and 7 miles from Gravesend. It has a station on the North-Kent railway. The town is pleasantly situated in a valley between two hills, on the river Darenth, from which it derives its name. In Domesday it is written Tarentefort."

"A chantry-chapel, dedicated to St. Edmund the Martyr, and situated in a cemetery of its own on the opposite side of the town, belonged to the nunnery; and was in such great repute by pilgrims to Canterbury that the reach of Watling street leading to it often took the name of "St. Edmund's way" but it has entirely disappeared.

The parish church is a spacious ancient edifice, with a Norman tower; was respired, or much altered, in 1793 and at other times; and has remains of a decorated screen, a mural monument to Sir John Spielman, Queen Elizabeth's jeweller, and some interesting brasses and effigies."

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Civil Registration
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.

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1934 Dartford Registration District

Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Kent ($)

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * Census returns for Dartford, 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * Findmypast Census ($)

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.

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