Orlestone, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
ORLESTONE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of East Ashford, partly in the liberty of Romney Marsh, and partly in the hundred of Ham, lathe of Shepway, W division of Kent, 6½ miles S by W from Ashford. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Orlestone is a small hamlet within the civil parish of Orlestone and Warehorne but includes St Mary the Virgin church. The principal settlement is at Hamstreet which is also forms part of the ecclesiastical parish of Warehorne, Kent Orlestone Wikipedia

Orlestone St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish

The church of St Mary the Virgin Church Lane Orlestone has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 360-365. Date accessed: 9 September 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Hamstreet is a village within the civil parish of Orlestone and Warehorne. Hamstreet Wikipedia The church of the Good Shepher Hamstreet Church website is part of the South Kent Methodist Circuit and is a shared Anglican/Methodist church building.

The Anglican parishes of Orlestone, Snave, Kent (now a redundant church) Ruckinge, Kent Warehorne, Kent and Kenardington, Kent are all part of the united benefice.

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Civil Registration
See East Ashford Registration District

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
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
Census returns for Orlestone 1841-1891

It is necessary to search for Hamstreet entries both in this collection and that of Warehorne, Kent since Hamstreet is partly in each ecclesiastical parish but in the same civil parish.In practice online census search is more rapid.

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.
 * Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
 * Introduction to Family History Centers 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 Findmypast (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

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.


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

Local Family History Centre

 * Canterbury 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)