West Marsh, Kent Genealogy

Guide to West Marsh, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Westmarsh is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent Westmarsh Wikipedia

Westmarsh was an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1849 from Ash (near Sandwich), Kent St Nicholas Ancient Parish.

The parish of Ash near near Sandwich is the largest parish in the county of Kent and the need for smaller chapels lead to the creation of Westmarsh Holy Trinity in 1849.

Holy Trinity Church was restored in1895 and in 1958 with the introduction of electricity however the need for the smaller churches lessened and in 1967 the parish was reunited with St Nicholas Ash to form the modern parish of Ash with Westmarsh; a map of the parish boundary may be found at A church near you. The church was sold for conversion to private residential dwelling and is known as Trinity House.

MARSH, WEST, '''eccl. dist.''', Ash next Sandwich par., Kent, pop. 417.

See Kent Churches website

Civil Registration
Eastry Registration District

Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.

The Mansion House (Certificate Centre) Grove Hill Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1EP

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
West Marsh parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Census records
See Kent Census

Poor Law Unions
Eastry 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