Crayford, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
CRAYFORD (St. Paulinus), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Dartford, hundred of Lessness, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 13 miles E by S from London.

Crayford is a town in the London Borough of Bexley Crayford Wikipedia.

Crayford St Paulinus is an Ancient Parish and included Slade Green and North End in the parish boundary. It neighboured Erith, Kent and Dartford, Kent Ancient Parishes as parishes on the south bank of the River Thames with neighbouring Essex Parishes of Wennington, Essex and Aveley, Essex on the north bank of the river.

The parish of Slade Green St Augustine was formed from this Ancient Parish in 1925 Slade Green St Augustine.

Other places of worship include:

Church built 1900; parish created 1925 from Crayford & Erith Christ Church.
 * Slade Green, St Augustine, Slade Green Rd

Church built 1866-67.
 * Baptist: Crayford, Crayford Baptist Church, Bexley Lane

(1810) No information on registers.
 * Baptist: Barnes Cray chapel 

High St. Original registers from 1896.
 * Wesleyan/Methodist Methodist: Crayford Methodist Church

Church built 1842, demolished 1974 following erection of new church. Original registers from 1840.
 * Roman Catholic St Mary of the Crays: Old Rd

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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

 * 1837-1965 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

 * Census returns for Crayford 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

 * Crayford Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Parish Church of St Paulinus British listed building
 * Parishes: Crayford British History Online
 * St Paulinus Crayford Kent Churches
 * St Paulinus, Crayford, Church of England GENUKI