Chelsfield, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHELSFIELD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bromley, hundred of Ruxley, lathe of Sutton-At-Hone, W division of Kent, 6¼ miles SE from Bromley. At Farnborough, in the parish, is a chapel of ease.

Chelsfield is now part of the London Borough of Bromley but until 1934 the village and civil parish included Pratt's Bottom, Cudham, Green Street and part of Orpington. Chelsfield St Martin of Tours is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Rochester. Farnborough, Kent was formed as a chapelry in this parish. Well Hill Mission church is within the parish boundary. Chelsfield also included a Wesleyan Methodist Church.

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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

 * 1837-1934 Bromley 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

 * Census returns for Chelsfield 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection($)
 * Findmypast Census($)

Land Tax

 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831

Poor Law Unions

 * Bromley Poor Law Union

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.


 * England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

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

Websites

 * Chelsfield GENUKI
 * Chelsfield Wikipedia
 * Chelsfield Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Chelsfield: St Martin of Tours A Church Near You
 * Family History North West Kent Family History Society($)
 * Green Street Green Wikipedia
 * Green St Green Baptist Church GSGBaptist
 * Parishes: Chelsfield British History Online
 * St Martin Of Tours Chelsfield Kent Churches
 * St Martin of Tours, Chelsfield, Kent St Martin Chelsfield