Gillingham St Mark, Kent Genealogy

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

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records
Gillingham Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Gillingham St Mark Baptisms 1863-1952 marriages 1856-1954 reference P153E digital images may be searched online at Medway Archives City Ark project http://cityark.medway.gov.uk

Census Records
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Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

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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