Swanley St Mary the Virgin, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Swanley St Mary the Virgin, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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
Swanley St Mary the Virgin Baptisms 1902-1983 Marriages 1902-1954 reference P358C digital images may be searched online at Medway Archives City Ark project http://cityark.medway.gov.uk

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