Elmley, Isle of, Kent

Historical Description

Elmley, Isle of, a parish in Kent, on the Swale, 1 ½ mile E of the Sheerness railway, and 3½ miles SE by S of Queen-borough. Post town, Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Murston. The area is 1956 acres of land and 514 of tidal water and foreshore; population, 219. Much of the surface is marshy. There are a ferry on the Swale, and a coastguard station. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £210. The church is modern.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Kent
Ecclesiastical parish	Elmley St. James
Lathe	Scray
Liberty	Isle of Sheppey
Poor Law union	Sheppey

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for Elmley, St James: baptisms 1827-1919, marriages 1850-1918, burials 1821-1922

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Elmley, Isle of from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Elmley, Isle of (St. James))

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.