Leeds, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Leeds, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Leeds, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Leeds St Nicholas Kent | |
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Eyhorne |
| County | Kent, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Hollingbourne |
| Registration District | Hollingbourn |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1557 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1563 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Sutton |
| 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]
LEEDS (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Hollingbourne, hundred of Eyhorne, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 5 miles E by S from Maidstone.[1]
Leeds is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone Borough of Kent, see Leeds Kent Wikipedia Leeds Castle is within the village, see Leeds Castle Wikipedia
Leeds St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish; a map of the modern Leeds and Broomfield parish boundary is available at A church near you
The Parish church of Leeds St Nicholas 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 5 (1798), pp. 478-502. Date accessed: 19 August 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Broomfield St Margaret was a chapelry within the parish of Leeds; Edward Hasted describes the church The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 502-505 at British History Online
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
This parish was in the Hollingbourne registration district. See Maidstone 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]
Leeds parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = findmypast - (£)[2][3][4][5] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[6] | |||||
| MIDK = Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911 - free[7] |
| Leeds Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1624-1911 | 1557-1837; 1756-1807 (Banns) | 1625-1925 | |||
| FREG | 1754-1911 | |||||
| MIDK | 1754-1911 | |||||
Original deposited registers are held at:
Centre for Kentish Studies, County Hall, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1XX
From Spring 2012 material formerly held at
Centre for Kentish Studies, County Hall, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1XX
is available at Kent History and Library Centre see Kent Archives which also enables a search of the catalogue for Kent Archives material deposited at Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Family History Library film numbers
Leeds
See also England, Kent, Parish Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
- Images for Leeds available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Leeds 1841-1891
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition 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 collections using the portal.
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. 46-55. Date accessed: 19 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.
- ↑ 'Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911,' Woodchurch Ancestry Group, accessed 16 January 2014.
