West Peckham, Kent Genealogy
Guide to West Peckham, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| West Peckham, Kent | |
|---|---|
 West Peckham St Dunstan Kent | |
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Littlefield |
| County | Kent, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Malling |
| Registration District | Malling |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1561 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1716 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Malling |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester; Post-1844 - Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent History and Library Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
PECKHAM, WEST (St. Dunstan), a parish, in the union of Malling, hundred of Littlefield, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 6 miles NE from Tonbridge. [1]
West Peckham is a village and civil parish in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent West Peckham Wikipedia
West Peckham St Dunstan is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you
West Peckham may also be referred to as Little Peckham in some ancient record sources.
The church of St Dunstan West Peckham has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
See Kent Archaeological Society and Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 56-70 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
This parish was from 1837 in the Malling 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]
West Peckham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| West Peckham Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1813-1879 (gaps) | 1813-1835 | ||||
| FMP | 1561-1751 | |||||
| FS BTs | 1716-1879 | 1716-1879 | 1716-1879 | |||
| FS PRs | 1561-1902 | 1561-1751, 1813-1835; 1754-1826 (banns) | 1561-1902 | |||
| IGI | 1561-1879 | 1561-1835 | ||||
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
- Images for the Borough of Oxon Hoath, West Peckham are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831
Other spellings are Oxenhoath, Oconhoath
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for West Peckham 1841-1891
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 Family History Center 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]
- Family History Center 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. 542-545. Date accessed: 27 April 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 7 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish marriage records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 11 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 13 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 18 November 2013.
