Deptford St Nicholas, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
DEPTFORD, a town, in the union of Greenwich, partly in the E division of the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey, but principally in the hundred of Blackheath, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 4 miles E from London. In 1730, the town was divided into the two parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Paul, the former of which, including the old town.

DEPTFORD St Nicholas, was created a parish from ancient times, in the west division of Kent, 4 miles east from London.

In 1730, the town was divided into the two parishes of St Nicholas and St Paul parish were built. St Nicholas included the old town. The parish church was in operation by at least the year 1563. The church, was rebuilt in 1697.

There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists and Unitarians.

The foundation stone of the Royal Naval school at Counter Hill, was laid June 1st, 1843. There are two almshouses belonging to the Corporation of the Trinity House, for decayed pilots and masters of ships, or their widows: one, which adjoins St. Nicholas' churchyard, and consists of 25 apartments; the other, in Church Street, was built about the close of the seventeenth century, and contains 56 apartments, forming a spacious quadrangle.

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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

 * 1837-1930 Greenwich Registration Districts
 * 1930-1965 London Registration Districts

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

 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * Census returns for Denford, 1841-1891
 * FindMyPast Census ($)

Land Tax

 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832

Poor Law Unions

 * 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
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Websites

 * Deptford GENUKI
 * Deptford Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Deptford St Nicholas A Church Near You
 * Parishes: Deptford British History Online
 * The church of St Nicholas Deptford Green British Listed Buildings