Dartford, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Dartford, Kent ancestry, 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 SE from London, and 22 NW from Maidstone, on the great road from London to Canterbury and Dover.

Dartford Holy Trinity is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester Dartford deanery. This important parish church, which stands blocking the end of the high street ...is mentioned in Domesday Book (1086)

==== Other places of worship in Dartford include ==== Original Registers. These date from 1910.
 * St Alban St Albans Rd. Original Registers These date from 1903.
 * Christ Church Christchurch Rd, West Hill Church built 1909; parish created 1910 from Holy Trinity.
 * St Anselm Roman Catholic Dartford,, West Hill Mission opened 1866; church built 1900, demolished 1975 for Priory shopping centre; rebuilt 1973-5 on West Hill. Original Registers These date from 1866.
 * Strict Baptist Dartford, Zion Chapel, Priory Hill
 * Baptist Brent Chapel, East Hill, (c.1880). No information on registers.
 * Baptist Dartford Highfield Road Church built 1867-8.

==== Independent/Congregational ====
 *  Independent Zion Chapel Lowfield St. (1794); later (1819) Countess of Huntingdons Connexion. Original registers from 1797.
 * Independent Lowfield St. Chapel built 1819, later converted to offices & demolished for shopping centre. Original registers from 1818.
 * Congregational Chapel. (1818). No information on registers.
 * Congregational Dartford, West Hill Church built 1882, later United Reform Church. Closed 2000 and converted to flats.
 * Methodist Spital Street Built 1844-5. Original Registers These date from c1845.
 * Primitive Methodist Dartford, East Hill Built 1874, now Emmanuel Pentecost.
 * Wesleyan/Methodist Wesleyan: Waterside Chapel. (1798). Original registers from 1811.

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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

 * 1837-1974 Dartford Registration District
 * 1980-2003 Gravesend 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

 * Dartford Census returns 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * Findmypast Census ($)

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.


 * 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

 * Christ Church British Listed Buildings
 * Christ Church Dartford Kent Churches
 * Church of Holy Trinity British Listed Buildings
 * Dartford North West Kent Family History Society
 * Dartford Holy Trinity A Church Near You
 * Holy Trinity Church, Dartford Kent Archeological Society]
 * Holy Trinity Dartford Kent Churches
 * Holy Trinity, Dartford, Church of England GENUKI]
 * Parishes: Dartford British History Online
 * Methodist Church British Listed Buildings
 * Zion Strict Baptist Chapel British Listed Buildings