Woolwich St Mary, Kent, England Genealogy

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Woolwich St Mary

Guide to Woolwich St Mary, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Woolwich St Mary
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Woolwich Town
Poor Law Union	Greenwich
Registration District	Greenwich
Records Begin
Parish registers	1670
Bishop's Transcripts	1719
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	None
Diocese	Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - London
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Pre-1845 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester; Post-1844 - Court of the Bishop of London (Episcopal Consistory)
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

WOOLWICH (St. Mary Magdalene), a market town and parish, in the union of Greenwich, hundred of Blackheath, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 8 miles E by S from London.

Woolwich St Mary is an Ancient Parish historically in North West Kent and within the Greater London boundary. Woolwich remained part of Kent until 1889 when the County of London was created Woolwich Wikipedia

It is also known as the church of St Mary Magdalene and was established by at least the year 1670, and re-built in 1727 by an unknown architect and Deptford builder Matthew Spray. The church has been designated a grade II* listed building by English Heritage Listed Building

Within this Ancient Parish were formed:

• Holy Trinity: Rope Walk / Beresford Square. Built 1833 as Trinity Episcopal Chapel; chapel of ease 1850, closed 1960 and demolished 1962; parish created 1881 from Woolwich St. Mary, abolished 1953.

• St John the Evangelist: Wellington St. built 1845, demolished 1948; separate parish created 1869 from Woolwich St Mary, abolished 1939. Original registers from 1869.

St Michael & All Angels: Borgard Road built 1875; parish created 1879 from Woolwich St Mary.

Places

Chapelries

Woolwich consists of the following chapelries and district chapels:

• Garrison Chapel - 1863
• Holy Trinity, Beresford Square - 1881
• Royal Arsenal and Dockyard Chapel - 1873
• St John the Evangelist - 1869
• St John the Evangelist, North Woolwich - 1877
• St Michael and All Angels - 1878
• St Saviour's Mission Church, Rope Yard Rails - 1873
• St Thomas - 1850

Resources

Find Neighboring Parishes

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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Cemeteries

• Woolwich Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Monumental Inscriptions in the Churchyard of Woolwich Parish Church(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

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

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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Woolwich St Mary 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
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

See Greenwich 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.

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