Wickhambreaux, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Wickhambreaux, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Wickhambreaux, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Wickhambreaux St Andrew Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Downhamford |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Bridge |
| Registration District | Bridge |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| 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]
WICKHAMBREUX (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Downhamford, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 5 miles E by N from Canterbury. [1]
Wickhambreaux is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury district of Kent, see Wickhambreaux Wikipedia
Wickhambreaux St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury and the modern parish is part of the Littlebourne Benefice including Littlebourne, Kent, Ickham, Kent and Stodmarsh, Kent A map of the parish boundary can be found at A church near you
The Parish church of St Andrew, Wickham Court Lane, has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
See Kent Archaeological Society
Edward Hasted refers to Wickhambreaux as one of the parishes in the hundred of Downhamford, part of the possessions of the Abbey of St Augustine until Henry VIII dissolution of the monastic lands. "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent": Volume 9 (1800), pp. 142 at British History Online
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]
Wickhambreaux parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = FindMyPast - (£)[2][3][4] |
| Wickhambreaux Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1780-1928; 1755-1849 (Banns) | 1780-1928; 1755-1849 (Banns) | 1558-1901 | 1558-1901 | ||
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
- Images for Wickhambreaux are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Wickhambreaux 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 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.
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]
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. 565-567. Date accessed: 08 May 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury marriage records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury banns coverage', Find My Past, accessed 11 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury burial records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.
