Chatham Registration District

CHATHAM REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Kent.
Created : 1.4.1941 (out of Medway, Gravesend, Strood & Hoo, and Hollingbourne registration districts).
Sub-districts : Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester.
GRO volumes : 2a (1941–46), 5B (1946–65), 5F (1965–74).
Registers now held by : Medway.

Table 1: List of Places in Chatham Registration District

Civil Parish	County	From	To	Comments
Allhallows	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Chatham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (c).
Cliffe	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Cobham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Cooling	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Cuxton	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Frindsbury Extra	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Gillingham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (b) and (c).
Gravesend	Kent	1941	1952	See Table 2, notes (a), (e) and (g).
Halling	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
High Halstow	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Higham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Hoo	Kent	1941	1968	Abolished 1.4.1968 and incorporated into the parishes of Hoo St. Werburgh and Frindsbury Extra. See also Table 2, note (d).
Hoo St. Werburgh	Kent	1968	1974	Created 1.4.1968 out of the parishes of Hoo, Cooling, and Frindsbury Extra.
Isle of Grain	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Luddesdown	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Meopham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (d) and (h).
Northfleet	Kent	1941	1952	See Table 2, notes (d) and (g).
Rochester	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (c) and (f).
St. Mary Hoo	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Shorne	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).
Stoke	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, note (d).

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Chatham Registration District

Date of Change	Note	Description of Change	Population transferred
1.4.1941 (created)	(a)	Gained the parish of Gravesend from Gravesend registration district.	35495 in 1931
	(b)	Gained part of the parish of Gillingham (which until 1.4.1934 formed part of the parish of Bredhurst) from Hollingbourne registration district.	142 in 1931
	(c)	Gained the parishes of Chatham, Gillingham, and Rochester, from Medway registration district.	123106 in 1931
	(d)	Gained the parishes of Allhallows, Cliffe, Cobham, Cooling, Cuxton, Frindsbury Extra, Halling, High Halstow, Higham, Hoo, Isle of Grain, Luddesdown, Meopham, Northfleet, St. Mary Hoo, Shorne, and Stoke, from Strood & Hoo registration district.	33756 in 1931
	(e)	Gained part of the parish of Gravesend (which until 1.4.1935 formed the parishes of Chalk and Denton, and parts of the parishes of Cobham, Ifield, and Northfleet) from Strood & Hoo registration district.	2175 in 1931
	(f)	Gained part of the parish of Rochester (which until 1.4.1934 formed the parishes of Frindsbury Intra and Strood Intra, and parts of the parishes of Frindsbury Extra and Strood Extra) from Strood & Hoo registration district.	13779 in 1931
1.10.1952	(g)	Lost the parishes of Gravesend and Northfleet to Dartford registration district.
1.4.1968	(h)	Gained part of the parish of Meopham (which until 1.4.1968 formed part of the parish of Trottiscliffe) from Maidstone registration district,

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