St Mary Cray, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



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

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
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

Web sites
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