Davington, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
DAVINGTON (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union and hundred of Faversham, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E division of Kent, half a mile NW from Faversham.

Davington St Mary Magdalene is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; the church dates from 1123 and is the oldest existing building in Faversham.

The church was originally built as part of a Benedictine Priory for 26 nuns; parts of this building are adjacent to the church and are occupied as a private residential dwelling.

The modern parish of St Mary Magdalene with St Lawrence serves part of Faversham.

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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

 * 1837-1935 Faversham 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

 * Census returns for Davington 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * Findmypast Census ($)

Land Tax

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

Poor Law Unions

 * Faversham 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

 * Davington Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Parishes: Davington British History Online
 * Priory Davington Kent Churches
 * St Magdalene Church, Davington Priory Kent Archeological Society