Broadstairs, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
BROADSTAIRS, a small sea-port and hamlet, in the parish of St. Peter, union of Thanet, hundred of Ringslow, or Isle of Thanet, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 2 miles NE by N from Ramsgate, 4 S E by S from Margate, and 75 E from London. There are places of worship for Anabaptists and Wesleyans.

Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in Thanet district of Kent which is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's.

Broadstairs was formed as an Ecclesiastical parish in 1850 from St Peter in Thanet, Kent Ancient Parish.

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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

 * 1935-1998 Thanet Registration District
 * 1998-2003 Thanet and 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)

Other places of worship:
 * Broadstairs Baptist Church
 * Broadstairs Methodist Church
 * Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
 * St Mary's Chapel
 * The Roman Catholic Church of our Lady Star of the Sea

Census Records
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
 * Findmypast Census

Poor Law Unions

 * Thanet 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

 * Holy Trinity, Broadstairs Kent Churches
 * Holy Trinity Church British Listed Buildings
 * Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses British Listed Buildings
 * Shrine of Our Lady Bradstowe Wikipedia
 * St Mary's Chapel British Listed Buildings
 * Thanet, Broadstairs Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * The Roman Catholic Church of our Lady Star of the Sea British Listed Buildings