Sutton Valence, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Sutton Valence, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Sutton Valence, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Sutton Valence St Mary the Virgin Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Eyhorne |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Hollingbourne |
| Registration District | Hollingbourn |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1576 | |
| 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 Record Office | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
Sutton Valence (historically Town Sutton or Sutton Hastings) is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, see Sutton Valence Wikipedia.
Sutton Valence St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury since 2008 Deanery website; the chapelry of East Sutton, Kent was formed from this parish. A map of the parish boundary may be viewed at A church near you
The church of St Mary the Virgin, Chart Road, Sutton Valence is a Grade II listed building designated by English Heritage British listed building and replaced the first church on the site which was built in 1070 and demolished in 1823. The present church took over five years to build and retains Norman features. The church was later extended and restored.
See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 364-375. Date accessed: 14 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website
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]
Sutton Valence parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = FindMyPast - (£)[1][2][3] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[4] | |||||
| FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers (FamilySearch) - free[5] | |||||
| MIDK = Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911 - free[6] |
| Sutton Valence Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1577-1889 | 1577-1951 | 1577-1849 | |||
| FREG | 1754-1911 | |||||
| FS PRs | 1824-1900 (banns) | |||||
| MIDK | 1754-1911 | |||||
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
- Images for Sutton Valence are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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.
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns. Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives. The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats, merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
- [Hollingbourne Poor Law Union, Kent]]
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 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. England Jurisdictions 1851 Vision of Britain
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ '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 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.
