Kidbrooke, Kent, England Genealogy

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Kidbrooke

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

Kidbrooke
Type	Extra-parochial
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Blackheath
Poor Law Union	Lewisham
Registration District	Lewisham
Records Begin
Parish registers	For records see surrounding parishes
Bishop's Transcripts	1867-68
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not Applicable
Diocese	Not Applicable
Probate Court	Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
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Kent Record Office

Parish History

KIDBROOKE, a liberty, and anciently a parish, in the union of Lewisham, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 2 miles SSW from Woolwich.

Kidbrooke is a district in the London Borough of Greenwich Kidbrooke Wikipedia

The ecclesiastical parish history of Kidbrooke is fragmented over centuries . A manuscript of the 12th century, Textus Roffensis, which relates to the Diocese of Rochester the 'Chapel of Chitebroc' is mentioned in connection with the 'Church of Cerlentune'. Apparently it was then a Chapel-of-Ease to Charlton Parish Church. From a Charter dated 1206 it appears that Kidbrooke became an independent parish in the latter half of the century. The right of appointing the priest at that time belonged to Cecilia Countess of Hereford, but was later given to the prior and convent of Saint Mary Overie, Southwark. Early in the fifteenth century the Prior and Convent appropriated the income of the Rectory for the private use of the Monastery. Consequently no regular officiating priest was afterwards appointed to the Parish of Kidbrooke until 1876. This ancient church was dedicated to St Nicholas.

Kidbrooke was therefore an extra parochial place for a large part of the 19th century. Two churches were then built:

St James was built originally in 1866-1867 By Newman and Billing as a 1.000 seat Gothic style church. Shortly after the church was completed in 1881 serious subsidence occurred in the chancel and the east wall and parts of the north and south walls had to be demolished and rebuilt. Further and more serious damage occurred in the Second World War when first a land mine and later a V2 rocket destroyed the octagonal stone spire, the nave roof, windows and much of the interior. The church was rebuilt and refurbished in 1951.

The church of St James has been designated as a grade listed building British listed building

St Nicholas built in 1953 and consecrated on the feast of St Nicholas 6 December 1953. This became an independent parish in 2003.

Resources

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Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

• See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
  
  

Church Records

Kidbrooke is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Charlton next Woolwich.

• Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
• The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.
  

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.

• 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

• Lewisham 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.

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