Wye, Kent Genealogy
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Kent, England Genealogy
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
Wye is a village and within the civil parish of Wye with Hinxhill in the Ashford district of Kent. Wye Kent Wikipedia
Wye St Gregory and Saint Martin is an Ancient Parish.
The church of St Mary Goodcheap Lane Wye has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
The Parish Church of St Gregory and Saint Martin, Church Street, has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
Kent Archaeological Trust Architectural and historical information about the parish church
Wye Methodist Church, Bridge Street, Wye is part of South Kent Methodist Circuit Church website
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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]
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.
Family History Library film numbers
Wye
Parish registers for Wye, 1538-1925
Parish register originals deposited atCanterbury Cathedral Archives, The Precincts, Canterbury, Kent.
Canterbury Cathedral Archives nos.: U3/174/1/A1-A4, B1-B4, C1-C4, D1-D5, E1-E3.
Archdeacon's transcripts, 1563-1813; Bishop's transcripts, 1603-1903
St Gregory and St Martin original records housed at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent.
Some early pages damaged. Canterbury Cathedral Archives nos.: DCa/BT/217; DCb/BT1/269; DCb/BT2/341
See also England, Kent, Parish Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
Images for Wye are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831
See also images for Borough of Bewbridge
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Wye 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.
Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm 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.
Find my Past census search 1841-1901
for details of public houses in the 1881 census
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 hips 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.
Find my Past 1911 census search
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
East Ashford Poor Law Union, Kent
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.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Web sites[edit | edit source]
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
