Bexley, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
Bexley is a parish, in the union of Dartford, partly in the hundred of Lessness, but chiefly in the hundred of Ruxley, lathe of Sutton-At-Hone, W division of Kent, 3 miles W from Dartford. Bexley is a a town in the London Borough of Bexley Bexley Wikipedia. Bexley St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in Kent.

Other parishes formed from the Ancient Parish include:
 * St Mary the Virgin, Bexley Church Website which included within the parish boundary Lamorbey Bexleyheath and part of Welling. Lamorbey Park was developed. Lamorbey Wikipedia
 * Lamorbey Holy Trinity Kent Churches website
 * St John Park Hill Road Kent Churches website
 * Bexleyheath Christ Church Kent Churches website

Other places of worship include:
 * Bexleyheath Trinity Baptist Established 1827, demolished 1956.
 * Bethany Wesleyan Methodist
 * Albany Park Baptist Church, Stansted Crescent, Bexley
 * St John Fisher Roman Catholic Church, Thanet Road, Bexley
 * Strict Baptist Chapel, Bourne Road, Bexley
 * United Reformed Church, Hurst Road, Bexley
 * Our Lady of Angels Congregational: Chapel Rd, Bexleyheath. Built 1853-4, demolished 1987.

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

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

 * 1837-1952 Dartford registration District
 * 1952-1965 Sidcup Registration District
 * 1965-1993 Bexley Registration District

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)

Cemeteries

 * Cemetery burials from 1879 through 1897 FreeREG

Census Records
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
 * Census returns for Bexley 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection
 * FindMyPast Census

Land Tax

 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records Bexley 1780-1831

Poor Law Unions

 * Dartford 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.
 * England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

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

Websites

 * Bexley GENUKI
 * Bexley British History Online
 * Bexley Kent Churches
 * Bexley North West Kent Family History Society
 * Bexley St Mary
 * Kent Online Parish Clerks