Wittersham, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Wittersham, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Wittersham, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Wittersham St+John+the+Baptist Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Oxney |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Tenterden |
| Registration District | Tenterden |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1550 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1570 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Lympne |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
WITTERSHAM (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Tenterden, hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 5¼ miles S by E from Tenterden. [1]
Wittersham is a village and civil parish which is part of the Isle of Oxney in the Ashford district of Kent, see Wittersham Wikipedia.
Wittersham St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish and part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Beckley, Sussex, Peasmarsh, Sussex and Iden, Sussex
The Parish church of St John the Baptist, The Street, Wittersham 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 8 (1799), pp. 486-493 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Tenterden Methodist Church is part of the South Kent Methodist Circuit and covers part of the Wittersham parish.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
This parish was part of Tenterden registration district Tenterden Registration District Ashford 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]
Wittersham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
| MIDK = Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911 - free[3] |
| Wittersham Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1538-1600 | |||||
| MIDK | 1754-1911 | |||||
Original deposited registers were formerly 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
Wittersham
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
- Images for Wittersham are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Wittersham 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.
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. 636-639. Date accessed: 08 May 2013.
- ↑ 'Kent Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911,' Woodchurch Ancestry Group, accessed 16 January 2014.
