West Wickham, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



Parish History
West Wickham St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish.

The church at West Wickham was mentioned in the Domesday survey and the present church was built on the site of that original in the 15th century.

The church of St John the Baptist Layhams Road west Wickham has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

West Wickham developed from the village prior to the 1882 arrival of the railway into a twentieth century expanding suburb.

The 1963 London Government Act meant that from 1965 West Wickham was absorbed into the London Borough of Bromley.West Wickham Wikipedia

see West Wickham North West Kent Family History Society and West Wickham St John the Baptist

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
Deposited Parish Registers for this parish are held St John the Baptist - Baptisms 1538-1903, Marriages 1538-1900, Burials 1538-1871 Surrey History Centre- 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 6ND Tel: 01483 518737 Fax: 01483 518738 Email: shs@surreycc.gov.uk www.surreycc.gov.uk/surreyhistorycentre 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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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.

Web sites
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