Sidcup St John, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent

Parish History
Sidcup is a district partly in the London Borough of Bexley and partly in the London Borough of Greenwich. See Sidcup Wikipedia for current places of worship in the district.

Sidcup St John was created as an Ecclesiastical Parish in 1843 and was formed from part of Foots Cray, Kent and Chislehurst, Kent

The parish church of St John the Evangelist has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

See Sidcup North West Kent Family History Society and Sidcup St John the Evangelist

Other Sidcup parishes include:

Emmanuel Mission Church built 1887-1888 Church website

Sidcup Christ Church built 1900-1901 Sidcup Christ Church Church website

Lamorbey The Holy Redeemer (Anglican) dates from 1933 A Church near You ( with Good Shepherd)

Lamorbey Holy Trinity Hurst Road Church website

See also

Days Lane Baptist Church

Foots Cray Baptist Church Sidcup Hill

Our Lady of the Rosary (Roman Catholic) BlackFen

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
Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre is the Diocesan Record Office for all the Church of England Parishes within the London Borough of Bexley. Reference PA101B St John's, Sidcup 1841-1997

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Kent Census

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.

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

Local Family History Centre
Orpington Family History Centre, Kent is within the London Borough of Bromley, located adjacent to Orpington Station and on major bus routes through the borough and adjacent Sidcup.

Web sites
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