Upper Hardres, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Upper Hardres, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Upper Hardres, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Upper Hardres St Peter & St Paul Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Bridge and Petham |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Bridge |
| Registration District | Bridge |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1764 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1563 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Bridge |
| 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]
HARDRES, UPPER (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Bridge and Petham, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 5 miles S from Canterbury. [1]
Upper Hardres is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury district of Kent, see Upper Hardres Wikipedia.
Upper Hardres St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; a map of the parish boundary will be found at A church near you.
The Hardres family owned the lands of this parish and Lower Hardres, Kent (pronounced "Hards") from the 12th century.
The church is designated Grade I listed by English Heritage as a Norman church. Some windows date from 1200 and include glass bought from Stelling, Kent church in the 18th century.
The Parish church of St Peter and St Paul Hardres Court Road, Upper Hardres 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 9 (1800), pp. 304-309 Hardres at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Upper Hardres parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = FindMyPast - (£)[2][3][4] |
| Upper Hardres Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1764-1911 | 1764-1911 | 1754-1838 | 1754-1838 | 1783-1812 | 1783-1812 |
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Parish registers are deposited at Canterbury Cathedral Archives.
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
Images for Upper Hardres are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1832
Images for Acrise, Elham, Stelling and Upper Hardres are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1832
Elham is a sub-district and a parish. The sub-district includes the parishes of Stelling and Acrise. There is no information regarding Upper Hardres. Elham is included in items 5-7, while Stelling and Upper Hardres are in item 6, and Acrise is in item 7.
Kent Archives Office reference: Q/RPL/120-122
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
Images for Upper Hardres are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832.
Images for Acrise, Elham, Stelling and Upper Hardres are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832.
Elham is a sub-district and a parish. The sub-district includes the parishes of Stelling and Acrise. There is no information regarding Upper Hardres. Elham is included in items 5-7, while Stelling and Upper Hardres are in item 6, and Acrise is in item 7.
Kent Archives Office reference: Q/RPL/120-122
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.
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. 407-409. Date accessed: 15 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury baptism records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury marriage records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury burial records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.
