Cooling, Kent Genealogy

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Guide to Cooling, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.


Cooling, Kent
Cooling St James Kent.jpg
Cooling St James Kent
Type England Jurisdictions
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Shamwell
County Kent, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union Hoo
Registration District Hoo
Records begin
Parish registers: 1707
Bishop's Transcripts: 1718
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Rochester
Diocese Rochester
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester
Location of Archive
Kent History and Library Centre
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

COOLING (St. James), a parish, in the union of Hoo, hundred of Shamwell, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 6 miles N by E from Rochester. [1]

Cooling St James is a redundant Anglican church on the Hoo peninsula in the Medway district of Kent and was an Ancient Parish.

The church is designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage and dates from 13th-15th century with 19th century restoration.British Listed Building

The church is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust and open to visitors; the churchyard contains a group of children's graves which are widely believed to have inspired Charles Dickens description of the church yard in the opening of Great Expectations.St James Church Cooling Wikipedia and Churches Conservation Trust

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

This parish was part of Hoo sub district Chatham Registration District and registrations from July 1837 to the present day are held at

Medway district
The Register Office
Northgate
Rochester
ME1 1LS
Telephone 01634 338902
Fax 01634 338913
register.office@medway.gov.uk

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]

Cooling parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2]
FMP = findmypast - (£)[3]
FREG = FreeREG - free[4]
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[5]
MED = Medway Ancestors - free[6]
Cooling Online Parish Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

 Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
BIVRI 1813-1842
1816-1837

FMP
1719-1837

FREG 1707-1976
1712-1956
1708-1977
IGI 1719-1763, 1780-1812 1719-1763, 1780-1812
MED 1707-1977 1707-1977 1707-1977

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Census records[edit | edit source]

Census Returns for Cooling 1841-1891

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.

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.

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]

Cooling on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 682-685. Date accessed: 15 July 2013.
  2. ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 27 October 2014.
  3. ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish marriage records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
  4. ↑ 'Kent Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 6 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 15 November 2013.
  6. ↑ 'Medway Ancestors Imagebase: list of parishes, in alphabetical order', Cityark, accessed 8 November 2013.
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