Gravesend St George, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
GRAVESEND (St. George), a market-town and parish, having separate jurisdiction, in the union of Gravesend and Milton, locally in the hundred of Toltingtrough, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 15½ miles NW by W from Maidstone, and 22½ E by S from London. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.

Gravesend St George is an Ancient Parish in the market town of Gravesend on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Tilbury in Essex.

The original parish church of the Ancient parish was St Mary and was further south. St George church was built in 1510 and became Parish Church in 1544. This burned down in the great fire of Gravesend in 1727 and was replaced 1731-1733. The church was later extended and restored.

The Ecclesiastical parish of Gravesend St James was formed from Gravesend_St_George,_Kent Ancient Parish. The church was built in New Road in 1851 and the parish formed in 1852. The church was demolished in 1968.

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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

 * 1837-1941 Gravesend Registration District
 * 1935-1941 Strood and Hoo Registration District
 * 1941-1952 Chatham Registration District
 * 1952-1974 Dartford 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

 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * 1841-1891Census returns for Gravesend FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Findmypast Census ($)

Poor Law Unions

 * Gravesend and Milton 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.

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

 * Gravesend GENUKI
 * Gravesend Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * St George Gravesend Kent Churches