Dover Holy Trinity, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
Dover Holy Trinity was consecrated in 1835 and formed an Ecclesiastical Parish in 1841 when the parish was formed from Dover St Mary the Virgin, Kent Ancient Parish.

"A curate of St. Mary’s, the Rev’d. W. S. Cole, working at "the Pier”, decided that there was a need to establish a church in the area. He had an ally, both spiritual and financial, in the then serving Archbishop Howley... The foundation was laid in 1833 and the church was consecrated in September 1835. The 1939 war caused the area to become derelict again and the church was taken overby the Navy. The building was damaged and never re-opened the services being carried on in the Parish Hall near Finnis’s Hill, overseenby St. Marys."

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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

 * 1837-1897 Dover Registration District

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)

Census Records

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

Poor Law Unions

 * Dover 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.


 * England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

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

Websites

 * Dover Kent Online Parish Clerks<br
 * DOVER, KENT, ENGLANDThe Dover Historian