Sutton at Hone, Kent Genealogy

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Guide to Sutton at Hone, Kent family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
Sutton-at Hone is a village within the Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley civil parish Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley Wikipedia and Sutton-at-Hone Wikipedia

Sutton at Hone St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish which included Hawley and Swanley; the village of Hextable grew in the 1870's from a settlement and became a separate village and civil parish from Sutton-at-Hone. Hextable Wikipedia

The church of St John the Baptist Church Road Sutton-at-Hone 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 2 (1797), pp. 343-367. Date accessed: 14 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website

See Sutton-at-Hone North West Kent Family History Society Sutton-at-Hone St John the Baptist

Other places of worship include

Bethesda Baptist Church, Main Rd which dates from1834

Wesleyan Chapel Main Rd, Hextable which dates from1896. Wesleyan Church Ship Lane which dates from1880

From this parish was formed Swanley North West Kent Family History Society Swanley St Paul Swanley St Mary see Kent Churches website

See also Hextable North West Kent Family History Society

Here is an important jurisdictional perspective by Samuel A. Lewis -

Civil Registration
See Dartford registration District

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Land Tax
Images for Sutton at Hone are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1832

Census records
Census returns for Sutton-at-Hone 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. to locate local Family History Centres in UK 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.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

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. Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Dartford Poor Law Union, Kent

Probate records
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.

See England, Kent, Wills and Probate (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Local Family History Centre
Orpington Family History Centre, Kent

Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent


 * 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
SUTTON-AT-HONE (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Dartford, hundred of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington, lathe of Sutton-atHone, W. division of Kent, 2½ miles (S. by E.) from Dartford Here are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

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