Thurnham, Kent Genealogy

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Thurnham

Guide to Thurnham, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Thurnham, Kent
Thurnham 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: 1625
Bishop's Transcripts: 1562
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

Parish History

THORNHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Hollingbourne, hundred of Eyhorne, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 3 miles NE by E from Maidstone. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Thurnham is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent; see Thurnham Wikipedia.

Thurnham St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish; a map of the parish boundary may be seen at A church near you.

Thurnham St Mary the Virgin, Thurnham Lane, Thurnham 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. 520-532. Date accessed: 21 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website.

Resources

Civil Registration

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

Thurnham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FMP = FindMyPast - (£)

FREG = FreeREG - free

MIDK = Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911 - free

Thurnham Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FMP	1625-1840		1626-1836		1625-1840
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

Thurnham

• See also England, Kent, Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Land Tax

Images for Thurnham are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

• 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

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.

• 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

• Hollingbourne Poor Law Union, Kent

Probate Records

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.

• See England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Local Family History Centre

• Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent
  

• 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

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• England Jurisdictions 1851
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