Lower Halstow, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Lower Halstow, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HALSTOW, LOW (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union and hundred of Milton, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E division of Kent, 5½ miles NE from Sittingbourne.

"Halstow is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sittingbourne. The church is named St. Margaret with original parish registers commencing 1691 and Archdeacon's Transcripts commencing 1564.

Lower Halstow, is a parish in Milton district, Kent; at the upper end of Stangate creek, between the Medway and the Swale, 3 miles east-north-east of Rainham, rail station, and 4-1/2 northwest of Sittingbourne."

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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

 * 1837-1941 Milton Registration District
 * 1941-1979 Sittingbourne Registration District
 * 1980-1998 Swale Registration District
 * 1998-2003 Canterbury and Swale 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
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * 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

 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * 1841-1891 Census returns for Lower Halstow FamilySearch Historical Records
 * FindMyPast Census ($)

Land Tax

 * 1780-1832 England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Poor Law Unions

 * Milton 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

Websites

 * Halstow / Lower Halstow GENUKI
 * Parishes: Halstow British History Online
 * St Margaret of Antioch British Listed Buildings
 * St Margaret of Antioch Lower Halstow A Church Near You
 * St Margaret Lower Halstow Kent Churches
 * The Six Benefice The Church of England