Capel, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



Parish History
Capel is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells district of Kent Capel Kent Wikipedia

Capel St Thomas a Becket was formed as a chapelry of Tudeley, Kent The church ecclesisatical parish was created in 1868 and included the hamlet of Five Oak Green until the church of St Luke Five Oak Green was built in the 1890's.

The church was declared redundant and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.Church of St Thomas a Becket Capel Wikipedia and Churches Conservation Trust

The church of St Thomas a becket has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Capel North west kent Family History Society and Capel St Thomas a Becket

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.

Church records
Prior to 1868 refer to the records for Tudeley, Kent which contain events from Capel; Capel records commence from 1663 but are mixed within the mother parish records since Capel was a chapelry of that parish.

Capel International Genealogical Index entries will appear as Tudeley.

Original deposited registers are held at:

Centre for Kentish Studies,County Hall,Maidstone,Kent ME14 1XX

01622 694363

Fax: 01622 694379

archives@kent.gov.uk

Family History Library film numbers

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Tonbridge 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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