Stone (near Dartford), Kent Genealogy

Guide to Stone (near Dartford), Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
STONE-NEAR-DARTFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Dartford, hundred of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 2 miles E by N from Dartford.

Stone sometimes known as Stone next Dartford is a village in the Dartford district of Kent Stone Wikipedia.

Stone-next-Dartford St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester; a map of the parish boundary may be found at A church near you.

The church of St Mary Stone, Stone Road, Dartford has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building.

See Kent Archaeological Society and Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 384-399. Date accessed: 14 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website.

This parish should not be confused with Stone-in-Oxney, Kent.

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Civil Registration
See Dartford registration District

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Kent ($)
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

Land Tax

 * Images for Stone near Dartford are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831

Census record
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 * Ancestry UK Census Collection.
 * Find my Past census search 1841-1901.

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

Local FamilySearch Centre

 * Orpington FamilySearch Centre, Kent
 * Maidstone FamilySearch Centre, Kent
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Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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