Challock, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Challock, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CHALLOCK (St. Cosmas and St. Damien), a parish, in the union of East Ashford, hundred of Felborough, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 6 miles S from Faversham.

Challock St Cosmas and Damian was a originally a chapelry in Godmersham, Kent Ancient Parish.

The present church dates from the 13th century rebuilding on the site of a former Saxon church. The church was heavily damaged in the Second World War but has been restored.

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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. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1941 East Ashford Registration District

Church Records
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 * 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

 * Census returns for Challock, 1841-1891
 * Census returns for Challock, 1841-1891

Poor Law Unions

 * East Ashford 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Challock St Cosmas and Damian A Church Near You
 * Church of St Cosmas and St Damian British Listed Buildings
 * Parishes: ChallockBritish History Online
 * St Cosmas And St Damian Challock Kent Churches