Waldershare, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
WALDERSHARE (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Eastry, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, 4½ miles (N. by W.) from Dover.

Waldershare is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent, see Walderhare Wikipedia

The Ancient Parish church of All Saints was declared redundant on 1 June 1980; see All Saints Church Wikipedia and was absorbed into the parish of St Peter and St Paul Eythorne with Waldershare; a map of the parish boundary of Eythorne, Kent is available A church near you

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 10 (1800), pp. 50-61. Date accessed: 25 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Civil Registration
Eastry 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
Waldershare parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Land Tax
Images for Waldershare are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1827.

Poor Law Unions
Eastry 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain