Luton, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
LUTON, a chapelry in Chatham parish, Kent; 1½ mile SE of Chatham railway station. It was constituted in 1852; and it has a post office under Chatham.

Luton is a district in the Medway town of Chatham Chatham Kent Wikipedia Christchurch Luton Road was formed as a parish in 1842 from Chatham St Mary, Kent

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

Family History Library film numbers

Parish registers for Luton, 1852-1967 are the only Family History Library film holdings for Luton Christchurch.

Search Medway Archives Catalogue online for further references to the parish including Orders in Council inaugurating District Chapelries of St. John's and Christchurch, Luton 1852

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions

 * Medway 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain