Hoo St Werburgh, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Hoo St Werburgh, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HOO, or St. Werburgh, a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Hoo, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 4½ miles NE from Rochester.

Hoo St Werburgh is a village and civil parish on the Hoo peninsula in the Medway district of Kent.Hoo Peninsula Wikipedia Hoo St Werburgh Wikipedia

Hoo St Werburgh is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester.

The church is 12th century and occupies the site of an earlier 8th century church chronicled as part of a Mercian monastery in the time of King Aethelbald of Mercia. The church of St Werburgh Church Street Hoo St Werburgh has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage. British listed building

The graveyard contains the grave of Thomas Aveling the first British manufacturer of Aveling and Porter steam rollers.

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 2-16 at British History Online and Kent Churches website

See Hoo St Werburgh North West Kent Family History Society which includes other places of worship and Hoo St Werburgh

Civil Registration
This parish was part of Hoo sub district Chatham Registration District

and registrations from July 1837 to the present day are held at

Medway district The Register Office Northgate Rochester ME1 1LS Telephone 01634 338902 Fax 01634 338913 register.office@medway.gov.uk

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
Hoo St Werburgh parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

International Genealogical Index Batch Numbers


 * Christenings 1587-1599 Batch
 * Christenings 1642-1874 Batch
 * Marriages 1588-1599 Batch
 * Marriages 1640-1837 Batch

Land Tax

 * Images for Hoo available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832


 * The images may be found under the Way point Kent & Hoo near Strood later images identify the parish of Hoo in the division of North Aylesford. A further series of images under the way point Kent & Hoo near Rochester are for the parish of St Mary Hoo, Kent


 * Both of these image sets are derived from a single 1987 microfilm of Kent Archives bundle reference Q/RPL/181.

Census records
Census return for Hoo St Werburgh 1841-1891

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
 * Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
 * Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK.
 * Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.


 * Ancestry UK Census Collection
 * Find my Past census search 1841-1901

Poor Law Unions

 * Hoo 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
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