A View of the Parish
Your Online Parish Clerk for St. Mary Cray is:
Debra Buchanan.
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St. Mary's Cray is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Dartford. The church is named for St. Mary the Virgin with registers commencing 1579.
St. Mary’s Cray, is a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent. The village stands on the rivulet Cray, and on the Mid Kent railway, 4-1/2 miles east-by-south of Bromley; was once a market town; includes a number of modern houses; and has a railway station with telegraph, a post office under Foots Cray, London, S.E., and fairs on 13 February and 10 September.
The parish comprises 2,010 acres. Real property in 1860, £6,923. Population in 1861, 1,464. Houses, 277. The property is much subdivided. There is a large paper mill.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £300 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is later English.
There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels, a literary institute, a police station, an endowed school with £70, and charities of £12.1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).
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- 1801-1831
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- 1861
- 1871
- 1881
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- Settlement Certificates
- Removal Orders
- Bastardy Examinations
- Parish-assisted Immigrants
- Churchwarden's Accounts
- Overseer's Accounts
- Surveyor's Accounts
- Workhouse Records
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- Donors' Rolls
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- Parish Histories
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- AD index 1448-1857
- CC index 1448-1857
- PCC 1338-1858
- PPR 1858-1925
- Depositions
- Quarter Sessions
- Militia Lists
- Muster Rolls
- Description Books
- Tithe Apportionment c1830s
- Transportations
- Protestation Rolls c1641-1643
- Oaths of Allegiance c1720s
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- Poll Tax
- Hearth Tax
- Window Tax
- Hair Powder Tax
- Land Tax Assessments 1780-1831
- Land Tax Assessments 1799-1805
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- Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
- Illustrated Guide to the London and Dover Railway, 1846
- History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
- Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 1: Counties & Localities]
- Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
- Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
- Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1882
- Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 1. Kent: County & Localities]
- Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
- Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities]
- Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
- Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
- Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
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- Parish Map
- Deeds, Mortgages, etc.
- Rated Property Returns
- Returns of owners of land, 1873
- Manor Court Baron
- Manor Tenancy Rolls
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