High Halstow, Kent, England Genealogy


High Halstow

Guide to High Halstow, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.


High Halstow
High Halstow St Margaret Kent.jpg
High Halstow St Margaret Kent
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Kent
Hundred Hoo
Poor Law Union Hoo
Registration District Hoo
Records Begin
Parish registers 1653
Bishop's Transcripts 1718
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

HALSTOW, HIGH, (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union and hundred of Hoo, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 6 miles NNE from Rochester.[1]

"NORTHWARD from Hoo lies Halstow, usually called High Halstow, as well from its high situation, as to distinguish it from another parish of the same name, near Upchurch, in this county...HALSTOW is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese and deanry of Rochester. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret...This church was esteemed but as a chapel to the church of St. Warburgh Hoo, as appears by the instrument of bishop Laurence, in 1274..."[2]

Resources

Find Neighboring Parishes

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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

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:

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

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

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.

Census Records

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

Land Tax

Poor Law Unions

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

aps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites

References

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 379-383. Date accessed: 12 August 2013.
  2. Edward Hasted, in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (Canterbury, 1798), pp. 16-19. British History Online Parishes: Halstow Date accessed: 27 November 2021.