Lower Hardres, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Lower Hardres, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HARDRES, LOWER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Bridge and Petham, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 3 miles S from Canterbury.

"Lower Hardres is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Canterbury. The church is named for St. Mary with registers commencing 1563. Lower Hardres, or Nether Hardres, a parish in Bridge district, Kent; on Stane Street, 3 miles east-south-east of Chartham rail station, and 3-1/4 south of Canterbury..."

The Hardres family owned the two villages (nearby Upper Hardres, Kent ) from the 12th century.

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Civil Registration
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. here are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1974 Bridge Registration District

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Kent ($)
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * 1841-1891 Census returns for Lower Hardres FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Findmypast Census ($)

Land Tax

 * 1780-1832 England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Poor Law Unions

 * Bridge 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.


 * England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Lower Hardres GENUKI
 * Parishes: Lower Hardres British History Online
 * St Mary A Church Near You
 * St Mary Lower Hardres Kent Churches