Bidborough, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Bidborough, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bidborough, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Bidborough St Lawrence Kent | |
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Washlingstone |
| County | Kent, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Tonbridge |
| Registration District | Tunbridge |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1593 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1715 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Malling |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester; Post-1844 - Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent History and Library Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BIDBOROUGH (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Tonbridge, hundred of Washlingstone, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 3 miles SW from Tonbridge. [1]
Bidborough is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells district of Kent, see Bidborough Wikipedia
Bidborough St Lawrence is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester; a map of the parish boundary may be found at A church near you
The Parish Church of St Lawrence, High Street, Bidborough has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building
See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 272-276 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
See Tonbridge Registration District
Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.
The Mansion House (Certificate Centre)
Grove Hill Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN1 1EP
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Bidborough parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FS BTs = England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers (FamilySearch) - free[4] |
| Bidborough Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1716-1812 | 1716-1811 | ||||
| FS BTs | 1716-1904 (gaps) | 1716-1904 (gaps) | 1716-1904 (gaps) | |||
| FS PRs | 1755-1901 (banns) | |||||
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
Images for Bidborough, Leigh and Tonbridge are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Bidborough 1851-1891
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through Family History Center Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
- Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK.
- Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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.
Local Family History Centre[edit | edit source]
- Family History Center Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 233-237. Date accessed: 1 July 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 7 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 11 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 12 November 2013.
