Kent

Kent is known as the 'Garden of England'. With towns steeped in History, on the south coast of England, Kent is dotted with castles and historic houses, from Leeds Castle to which Henry VIII brought Catherine of Aragon in 1520 to Chartwell in Westerham, the home of Winston Churchill from 1922 until he died in 1965. Nelsons flagship “HMS Victory” was built at Chatham Dockyards. Five of the original Cinque Ports are to be found in Kent .... Dover, Hythe, New Romney & Sandwich, (the other being Hastings in East Sussex.)

Kent has many seaside towns perhaps the most famous being Margate, reputed to be the home of seaside donkey rides. Further round the coast are the famous white cliffs of Dover - epitomised in the wartime song by Vera Lynn. The Channel Tunnel was at last built between 1987 & 1994 linking Folkestone to Calais, following an attempt in 1880 which was abandoned, fearing a French invasion. County town: Maidstone Other major towns: Canterbury, Bexley Kent Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• Kent Record Office

• Kent Family History Society

• County Library Service

• Kent BMD search

• Kent OnLine Parish Clerks

• Kent Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• 1841 Kent Census

• Canterbury Cathedral Archives

• Kent Churches

• Coalfields Heritage Initiative Kent

• Convicts Transported from Kent to Australia in 1851/52

• Indices of Articles from Kent Newspapers 1786-1850

• Kent and South London Monumental Inscriptions

• Kent Archeology Society - Includes an Index of East Kent Wills

• Kent Baptisms

• Kent Churches Online

• Some Early Kent Deeds

• Pigots Directory 1840

• Kent Genealogy Pages

• Historic Kent

• This is Here's History - Kent

• Mid Kent Marriages Index

• Kent Parishes and Villages

• Kent Quarter Sessions Index

• Kent War Memorials Transcription Project

• Medway City Ark - Parish Registers

• Ideal Homes Suburbia In Focus

• The Weald of Kent Surrey and Sussex

• West Kent Wills and Families up to 1650

• Abstracts of Title and Draft Wills

• Surrey Plus Index: Kent

• Kent V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detatchments)

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Barham Genealogy

• Chatham News Index 1895-1965

• Dover Corporation Accounts, 1688

• Dover War Memorial Project

• East Kent Local History Pages

• Egerton

• Local History of The Parish of Elmsted and Family Histories of Elmsted and Neighbouring Villages on The North Downs

• Elmsted and Waltham History and Genealogy Pages

• Farnborough Parish

• Faversham History

• Folkestone & District FHS

• Folkestone Genealogy Pages

• Folkestone Wills 1388-1858

• St. Martin's Church, Great Mongeham -Gravestones

• Green Street Green

• Hartley

• Kemsing Heritage Centre

• Lynsted with Kingsdown Society

• Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions

• Marden Village

• Margate Historical Society

• North West Kent FHS

• Northbourne Sources

• Plaxtol Local History Group

• Rainham History

• Ramsgate and Isle of Thanet

• Sandhurst and surrounding Villages

• Sandwich

• Staple Village

• Staplehurst Parish

• Sheerness and The Isle of Sheppey

• Isle of Sheppey Coastguards

• Tunbridge Wells FHS

• Walmer Web

• West Farleigh

• West Malling Resource Centre

• Westminster Villlage, Isle of Sheppey

• Woodchurch Genealogy

• Woodchurch Local and Family History

• Wrotham Heath

Maps and Photographs

Register Office

The main Kent contact site is Kent Registration Services

Maidstone Registration Services

Invicta House
Maidstone
Kent
ME14 1XX

Tel: 08458 247 400
Email: Register.office@kent.gov.uk

Medway Towns (Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester)

Medway Register Office
Ingleside
114 Maidstone Road
Chatham
ME4 6DJ

Tel: 01634 338899

Email: register.office@medway.gov.uk

Bexley District Register Office

Manor House
The Green
Sidcup
Kent
DA14 6BU

Tel: 020 8308 7515

• Council webpage at Bexley Council - Registrars

Bromley Registration Service

Civic Centre
Stockwell Close
Bromley
BR31 3OH

Tel 020 8313 4666

E-mail registrars@bromley.gov.uk

• London Borough of Bromley Events from 1966 or earlier must be ordered by post or in person at the office. Events after 1966 can be ordered online, by post or in person.

Greenwich

The Register Office
Town Hall
Wellington Street
Woolwich
London
SE18 6PW

Tel: 020 8921 4377

E-mail registrar@greenwich.gov.uk

• Greenwich Council - Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships

Requests for Research and Photographs in this area

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A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers forum or on the following pages in the Wiki:

• Research Offers: Cemetery
• Research Offers: Photograph
• Research Offers: Probate
• Research Offers: Record Office/Archive

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