Farningham, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Farningham, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Farningham, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Farningham St Peter & St Paul Kent | |
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Axton, Dartford and Wilmington |
| County | Kent, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Dartford |
| Registration District | Dartford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1589 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1676 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Shoreham |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Deaneries of Arches, Croydon and Shoreham; Post-1844 - Search the courts of surrounding parishes |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent History and Library Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
FARNINGHAM (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Dartford, hundred of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 5 miles S from Dartford.[1]
Farningham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, see Farninghamikipedia.
Farningham St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the diocese of Rochester in the united benefice of Eynsford, Kent Genealogy with Farningham and Lullingstone, Kent Genealogy.
The parish church of St Peter and St Paul has been designated as a grade I listed building British Listed building.
See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 510-526 at British History Online and Kent Churches website.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
See Dartford registration District
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]
Farningham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Farningham Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1813-1865 | 1814-1837 | ||||
| FREG | 1856-1892 | |||||
| FS BTs | 1813-1904 | 1813-1904 | 1813-1904 | |||
| FS PRs | 1589-1883 | 1589-1837; 1754-1775, 1824-1881 (banns) | 1589-1873 | |||
| IGI | 1589-1812 | 1590-1810 | ||||
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Non-Conformists (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Farningham 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.
- 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. 216-220. Date accessed: 29 July 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 27 October 2014.
- ↑ 'Kent Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 11 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 13 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 13 November 2013.
