Woolwich St Mary, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
WOOLWICH (St. Mary Magdalene), a market town and parish, in the union of Greenwich, hundred of Blackheath, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W. division of Kent, 8 miles (E. by S.) from London.

Woolwich St Mary is an Ancient Parish historically in North West Kent and within the Greater London boundary. Woolwich remained part of Kent until 1889 when the County of London was created Woolwich Wikipedia

It is also known as the church of St Mary Magdalene [and was established by at least the year 1670, and re-built in 1727 by an unknown architect and Deptford builder Matthew Spray. The church has been designated a grade II* listed building by English Heritage Listed Building Within this Ancient Parish were formed:


 * Holy Trinity: Rope Walk / Beresford Square. see List of Commissioners Churches in London Wikipedia Built 1833 as Trinity Episcopal Chapel; chapel of ease 1850, closed 1960 &amp; demolished 1962; parish created 1881 from Woolwich St. Mary, abolished 1953.

St Michael &amp; All Angels: Borgard Road built 1875; parish created 1879 from Woolwich St Mary.
 * St John the Evangelist: Wellington St. built 1845, demolished 1948; separate parish created 1869 from Woolwich St Mary, abolished 1939. Original registers from 1869.

Here is 'A Comprehensive List of Chapels and District Churches in Woolwich St Mary Magdalene Parish'. Historically, these chapelries and churches were attached to and jurisdictionally a part of the ancient parish of St Mary Magdalene.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Poor Law Unions
See 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain