Chalk, Kent, England Genealogy

England

Kent

Kent Parishes

Chalk

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

Chalk
Chalk St Mary the Virgin Kent
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Shamwell
Poor Law Union	North Aylesford
Registration District	North Aylesford
Records Begin
Parish registers	1661
Bishop's Transcripts	1719
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Rochester
Diocese	Rochester
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

CHALK (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of North Aylesford, hundred of Shamwell, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 1¾ mile ESE from Gravesend.

Resources

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Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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• Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
  

Cemeteries

• Inscriptions on Chalk Church and Churchyard(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Monumental Inscriptions, St. Mary's Parish Church, Chalk, Kent, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• The Monumental Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard of the Parish of Chalk, Kent(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

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

• 1837-1884 North Aylesford Registration District
  
• 1884-1923 Strood Registration District
  
• 1923-1935 Strood and Hoo Registration District
  

Church Records

Due to the increasing access of online records:

• Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  
• Dates in the following table are approximate
  

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Chalk Online Parish Records
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Kent	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Parish Registers-Kent	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Kent ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Findmypast Banns-Kent ($)	-	-	1500s-1900s	-	-	-
Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Kent ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
MyHeritage-Archdeaconry of Rochester Birth and Burial Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s	-	-	-	1500s-2000s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

• 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
  

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

• 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
  
• England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages at Findmypast — index & images ($); coverage may vary

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Poor Law Unions

• North Aylesford Poor Law Union, Kent (renamed Strood)
  

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

• Chalk British History Online
  
• Chalk GENUKI
  
• Chalk Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
  
• St Mary Chalk Kent Churches
  

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England Databases (FamilySearch) - free

England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911 (FamilySearch) - free

Digital images of Bishop's Transcripts are available in the FamilySearch Catalog

FreeREG - free

Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Parish Registers Browse, 1538-1913 (Findmypast) - ($)

Kent Marriages and Banns (Findmypast) - ($)

Kent, England Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1914 (Ancestry) - ($)

Various indexes of Birth/Christening, Marriage, and Death/Burial records are available on Ancestry.

Kent, Archdeaconry of Rochester Parish Baptisms and Kent, Archdeaconry of Rochester Parish Burials (MyHeritage) - ($)

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (Findmypast) - free

National Burial Index For England & Wales (Findmypast) - free

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