West Marsh, Kent Genealogy

Guide to West Marsh, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
MARSH, WEST, ecclesiastical district, Ash next Sandwich parish, Kent, pop. 417.

Westmarsh is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent Westmarsh Wikipedia

Westmarsh was an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1849 from Ash (near Sandwich), Kent St Nicholas Ancient Parish.

The parish of Ash near near Sandwich is the largest parish in the county of Kent and the need for smaller chapels lead to the creation of Westmarsh Holy Trinity in 1849.

Holy Trinity Church was restored in 1895 and in 1958 with the introduction of electricity however the need for the smaller churches lessened and in 1967 the parish was reunited with St Nicholas Ash to form the modern parish of Ash with Westmarsh; a map of the parish boundary may be found at A church near you. The church was sold for conversion to private residential dwelling and is known as Trinity House.

See Kent Churches website

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Civil Registration
Eastry Registration District

Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.

The Mansion House (Certificate Centre) Grove Hill Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1EP

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
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

 * See Kent Census

Poor Law Unions

 * Eastry 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