Dartford, Kent Genealogy

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



Parish History
DARTFORD (Holy Trinity), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W. division of Kent, 15 miles (S. E.) from London, and 22 (N. W.) from Maidstone, on the great road from London to Canterbury and Dovor.

Dartford is a town and borough in the Dartford district of Kent Dartford Wikipedia

Dartford Holy Trinity is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester Dartford deanery; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you

The church has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See Kent Archeological Society and Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 286-328 at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Other Anglican parishes formed from this parish include

St Alban St Albans Road see St Alban Dartford

Christ Church dating from 1909; the church has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building see Kent Churches website Christ Church Dartford

See Dartford North West Kent Family History Society

Other places of worship in Dartford include

St Anselm Roman Catholic Church

The Methodist Church Kent Road Dartford dates from 1844-1845 and has been designated asa grade II listed building British listed building

Wesleyan: Waterside Chapel. (1798). Methodist Spital St see Methodist Church Spital Street. Primitive Methodist East Hill see Dartford East Hill.

The Zion Strict Baptist Chapel Essex Road Dartford has been designated as a grade II listed building and dates from 1794 British listed building see Zion Chapel Priory Hill

Baptist: Brent Chapel, East Hill. (c.1880). Baptist Highfield Road see Baptist Chapel Highfield Road

Civil Registration
See Dartford 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
Dartford Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Nonconformists


 * Lovefield Street Independent Christenings 1797-1837 Batch (C068141)
 * Waterside Wesleyan Christenings 1811-1837 Batch (C068151)
 * Zion Independent Christenings 1820-1822; 1832-1833 Batch (C068131)

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

Dartford St Alban the Martyr parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Dartford St Edmund King and Martyr parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Census records
Dartford Census returns 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
East Hill and Watling Street Cemetery in Dartford burials have been indexed from 1856 through 1870 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