Elmley, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
ELMLEY, ISLE of (St. James), a parish, in the union of Sheppey, liberty of the Isle of Sheppey, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E division of Kent, 3 miles NNE from Sittingbourne.

Elmley St James was an Ancient Parish in Elmley Marsh on the Isle of Sheppey.

The church was enlarged and rebuilt in 1853; registers began in 1828. The parish was sparsely populated and remote with no roads only dirt tracks and the closure of the Victorian cement works.

The church was demolished and only some stones and fragments of gravestones remain.

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
Elmley 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

 * Sheppey 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