Guide to St Nicholas Hospital, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
At Harbledown the extra parochial area of St Nicholas Hospital grew from the foundation of the ancient St Nicholas Hospital. This was founded as a leper hospital to the west of Canterbury about 1084 by Archbishop Lanfranc. When leprosy disappeared from England the Hospital site was developed as alms housing.
See Victoria County History A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1926), pp. 219-220 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
The Land Tax records make no reference to this part of Harbledown but refer to the parish Harbledown, Kent Genealogy and Borough of Harbledown; see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records
See also kent Resources website and Historic Canterbury website
See Bridge 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.
St Nicholas Hospital parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911 (FamilySearch) - free
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FS Canterbury PRs = England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986 (FamilySearch) - free
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FS BTs = England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911 (FamilySearch) - free
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FS = FamilySearch - free
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FREG = FreeREG - free
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FMP Kent = Kent Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)
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FMP Canterbury = Kent Canterbury Archdeaconry Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)
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FMP East Kent = East Kent Marriage and Burial Indexes (FindMyPast) - ($)
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BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free
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IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[1]
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FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free
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FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free
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To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.
Family History Library film number Family History Library BRITISH Film 1786506 Item 5
Bishop's Transcripts 1814-1892
Canterbury Cathedral Archives, The Precinct, Canterbury, Kent. Canterbury Cathedral Archives reference: DCb/BT2/135
Baptisms, 1841, 1847, 1849, 1892; Burials, 1814, 1816, 1818-1821, 1823, 1827-1828, 1830, 1832-1836, 1840-1841, 1843-1844, 1846, 1848, 1883-1891.
The records contain only baptisms and burials for the brothers and sisters of the hospital; there is no evidence of marriage and the chapel appears not to have been licensed ecclesiastically for this.
See also England, Kent, Parish Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records for St Nicholas Hospital Bishop's Transcripts.
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
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.
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.
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