Stone-in-Oxney, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Stone-in-Oxney, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Stone-in-Oxney, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Stone+in+Oxney St+Mary Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Oxney |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Tenterden |
| Registration District | Tenterden |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1538 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1563 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Lympne |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
STONE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tenterden, hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 6½ miles SE from Tenterden. [1]
Stone-in-Oxney is a village and civil parish of Stone-cum-Oxney near Appledore in the Ashford district of Kent. Stone-in-Oxney Wikipedia.
Stone-in-Oxney St Mary is an Ancient Parish; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you.
The church of St Mary, Church Road, Stone 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 8 (1799), pp. 480-486. Date accessed: 14 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website.
This parish should not be confused with Stone (near Dartford), Kent or Stone (next Faversham), Kent.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
This parish was part of Tenterden registration district Tenterden Registration District 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]
Stone-in-Oxney parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = FindMyPast - (£)[2] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[4] |
| Stone-in-Oxney Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1568-1812 | |||||
| FREG | 1754-1911 | |||||
| IGI | 1567-1599 | 1567-1812 | ||||
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 Stone near Appledore 1841-1891
The Family History Library offers two sets of microfilm numbers at present and care needs to be exercised which film numbers are in fact correct given the possibility of confusion with 2 other places in the county.
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 FHC 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]
- FHC 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. 224-229. Date accessed: 08 May 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish marriage records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Kent Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 15 November 2013.
