Bexley, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



Parish History
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 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

St John Park Hill Road St John Park Hill Road

Bexleyheath The Broadway Bexleyheath Christ Church

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
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
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

International Genealogical Index Christenings 1719-1875 Batch (C130922) Marriages 1565-1706; 1723-1876 Batches (M130921, M130922)

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

Family History Library film numbers

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.

Census records
Census returns for Bexley 1841-1891

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.