Foots Cray, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
CRAY, FOOT'S (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Bromley, hundred of Ruxley, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 12½ miles SE from London.

Domesday Book recorded the landowner as Godwin Fot, who possessed a farm, four cottages and a mill – and gave his name to the manor. Conveniently located where the Maidstone Road crossed the River Cray, the village (which was also spelt Footscray, and sometimes still is) grew steadily over the following centuries.

Foots Cray All Saints is an Ancient Parish. This parish is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester and deanry of Dartford. The church stands at the back of the village on the north side, close to the corner of Foot's Cray park. It is a small mean building, consisting of two isles and a chancel, having a low spire steeple at the west end, and is seemingly of high antiquity. It is dedicated to All Saints.

Church of England Emmanuel: Mission church, Station Rd. Sidcup. Built 1887-8. No information on registers.

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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

 * 1837-1925 Bromley 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
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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
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 * 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 Foots Cray 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * Findmypast Census ($)

Land Tax

 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831

Poor Law Unions

 * Bromley Poor Law Union

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * All Saints Foots Cray Kent Churches
 * Emmanuel Sidcup Kent Churches
 * Foots Cray Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Parish Church of All Saints British Listed Buildings
 * Parishes: Foot's Cray British History Online