Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Milton included much of the town of Gravesend and became part of the civil parish of Grevesend in 1915. See Milton-next-Gravesend Wikipedia and Gravesend Kent Wikipedia

Milton St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the town of Gravesend.

The church dates from the 14th century with later additons and Victorian restoration and is designated a grade II* listed building by English Heritage.British listed building

The parish includes part of ancient parish of Denton (near Gravesend), Kent.

From this parish was formed the ecclesiastical parish of Milton-next-Gravesend Christchurch,Kent in 1856.

See Milton-next-Gravesend North West Kent Family History Society for other places of worship in the Gravesend area also Gravesend North West Kent Family History Society and Milton St Peter and St Paul Milton Christchurch

Here is an important jurisdictional perspective by Samuel A. Lewis-- MILTON-NEXT-GRAVESEND (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, forming a union with Gravesend, in the hundred of Toltingtrough, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent; including part of the town of Gravesend. An episcopal chapel, dedicated to St. John, was erected in 1834, for Milton and Gravesend.

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
Milton-next-Gravesend St Peter and St Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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.

Poor Law Unions
Gravesend and Milton 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