Plumstead St Nicholas, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent

Parish History
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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.

Church records
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Records for Plumstead are found at

Greenwich Heritage Centre, Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, SE18 6ST

020 8854 2452

heritage.centre@greenwich.gov.uk

Medway Archives Office, Civic Centre, Strood, Rochester, Kent ME2 4AU Telephone: 01634 332714 Fax: 01634 297060 E-mail: malsc@medway.gov.uk

London Metropolitan Archives

40 Northampton Road London EC1R 0HB

Tel: 020 7332 3820 Fax: 020 7833 9136 email: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk

International Genealogical Index 1813-1853 Batch (C165102)

Family History Library film numbers

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Lewisham 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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