Lee St Margaret, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
LEE (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Lewisham, hundred of Blackheath, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W. division of Kent, 7 miles (S. E. by E.) from London.

Lee also known as Lee Green is a district in the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich Lee London Wikipedia

Lee St Margaret is an Ancient Parish in North Kent.

The Ancient parish church of St Margaret was probably built in the 15th century. This church was demolished in 1813 apart from the tower. The replacement was troubled by subsidence and had to be demolished. The ruins of the tower are a listed building and the surrounding graveyard are designated as an archaeological priority area.



The replacement church of St Margaret was built on a site nearby 1839-1841 by architect john Brown of Norwich. It was subsequently restored.

The Church of St Margaret Lee Terrace has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See Lee North West Kent Family History Society for other Anglican churches in the area local parish boundaries and other places of worship and Lee St Margaret

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
Lee St Margaret 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
Census returns for Lee 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
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