Kennington, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Kennington, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Kennington, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Kennington St Mary Kent | |
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Chart and Longbridge |
| County | Kent, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | East Ashford |
| Registration District | East Ashford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1671 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1564 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Canterbury |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent History and Library Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
KENNINGTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of East Ashford, hundred of Chart and Longbridge, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 2 miles NE by N from Ashford.[1]
Kennington is now a suburb of the town of Ashford and within that borough. Historically Kennington was a village to the north east of Ashford, see Kennington, Kent Wikipedia
Kennington St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury and a map of the parish boundary is found at A church near you
The Parish church of Kennington St Mary, Church Lane, Kingsnorth, Ashford has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building
See Kent Archaeological Society and Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7 (1798), pp. 545-557 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
See East Ashford 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]
Kennington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = findmypast - (£)[2][3][4][5] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[6] | |||||
| FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers (FamilySearch) - free[7] | |||||
| MIDK = Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911 - free[8] |
| Kennington Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1670-1900 | 1673-1900; 1755-1900 (Banns) | 1671-1901 | |||
| FREG | 1754-1911 | |||||
| FS PRs | 1671-1900 | 1673-1900; 1755-1900 (Banns) | 1671-1900 | |||
| MIDK | 1754-1911 | |||||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Kennington 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. 652-659. Date accessed: 15 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish baptism records', Find My Past, accessed 5 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish marriage records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish banns', Find My Past, accessed 5 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish burial records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Kent Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 13 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911,' Woodchurch Ancestry Group, accessed 16 January 2014.
