St Mary Hoo, Kent Genealogy

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Parish History
St Mary Hoo is a village and civil parish on the Hoo peninsula in the Medway District of Kent. Hoo Peninsula Wikipedia St Mary Hoo Wikipedia

The former Ancient Parish church of St Mary is now a private dwelling and has been designated a grade II listed building by English Heritage and dates from the 14th century.British listed building

See St Mary Hoo North West Kent Family History Society and St Mary Hoo

Civil Registration
This parish was part of Hoo sub 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
International Genealogical Index Christenings 1695-1812 Batch (C131451) Marriages 1695-1837 Batch (M131451)

Hoo, St. Mary Christenings Marriages Burials 1695-1978 reference (P189) digital images may be searched online at Medway Archives City Ark project http://cityark.medway.gov.uk

Family History Library film numbers

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.

Census records
Census returns for St Mary Hoo 1841-1891

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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.