St Mary Cray, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



Parish History
St Mary Cray is a district in the London Borough of Bromley, formerly a village and civil parish known as South Cray and has a local tradition of Romany and traveller families. St Mary Cray Wikipedia

St Mary the Virgin St Mary Cray was originally formed as a chapelry of Orpington, Kent

The church of St Mary the Virgin High Street St Mary Cray has been designated asa grade B listed building British listed building

Crockenhill was a chapelry in Eynsford, Kent and this parish.

See St Mary Cray North West Kent Family History Society and St Mary the Virgin St Mary Cray

Other places of worship include

St Joseph Roman Catholic High Street St Joseph St Mary Cray

Baptist: (1869-pre.1928). Baptist: Zion. (1887-pre.1928)

Congregational: The Temple, High St. (1851).

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
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

International Genealogical Index Christenings 1579-1874 Batch (C147591) Marriages 1580-1837 Batch (M147591)

Deposited Parish registers are held at Bromley Archives reference P 277B

Bromley Central Library Telephone: 020 8461 7170 Fax: 020 8466 7860 e-mail: localstudies.library@bromley.gov.uk

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

Census records
Census returns for St Mary Cray 1841-1891

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.

Web sites
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