Greenwich St Alfege, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
GREENWICH, a town, a parish, and a district, in Kent. The town is suburban to London, within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan police and the Central Criminal court; is...opposite the Isle of Dogs...5 miles southeast by east of London Bridge.

Greenwich St Alfege Greenwich High Road is an Ancient Parish in North West Kent. The chapel of ease St Mary in King William Walk was part of ths parish. The chapel of ease was built in 1823 and closed in 1919 (demolished 1936) It kept no separate register.

The church dates from 1711 and was the first of the "Fifty new churches" to be built from the 1711 Act [New Churches in London and Westminster Act 1710 (9 Anne c. 17)] and was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The church has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage British Listed Building

See also Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 1 (1797), pp. 372-420 at British History Online

From this parish was created East Greenwich Christ Church, Kent and Greenwich St Paul Devonshire Drive which was built 1865-1866 and formed an ecclesiastical parish in 1864 declared redundant 1984 and is now a Seventh Day Adventist church, from St Paul was formed the ecclesiastical parish of St Peter Bridge Street in 1867, the church being built in 1866, and sustained bomb damage 1941; the parish merged with this parish in 1951 and the church was demolished 1955.

Here is A Comprehensive List of Greenwich Chapels and District Churches. These chapels and churches are all attached to and come under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of St Alfege Parish.

For a map of the Greenwich parishes fromed from this parish visit Greenwich North West Kent Family History Society and the relevant linked pages for parishes.

Westcombe Park St George, Kirkside Road, dates from 1892 Westcombe Park St George

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.

Greenwich St Alfege Parish
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

International Genealogical Index Christenings 1615-1660; 1801-1866 Batches Marriages 1615-1659; 1718-1719 1801-1837 Batches

Greenwich Croom's Hill Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish
Greenwich Croom's Hill Our Lady Star of the Sea parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Greenwich Royal Hospital
Greenwich Royal Hospital parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Greenwich Royal Hospital 1720-1856 Christenings Batch

Royal Hospital Bishops Transcripts Christenings 1813-1838; 1865-1869 (50%) Batch

Royal Hospital School Christenings 1822-1864 Batches

Nonconformists

 * George Street Wesleyan Chapel Christenings 1821-1837 Batch
 * Greenwich Road Newchapel 1777-1857 Christenings Batch
 * Maize Hill Independent 1811-1837 Christenings Batch

Land Tax
Images for Greenwich are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1832

Census records
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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.

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Kent Census

Poor Law Unions
Greenwich 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.

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