Sissinghurst, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
SISSINGHURST, a chapelry, with Milkhouse Street hamlet, in Cranbrook parish, Kent, 2 miles NE of Cranbrook, and 4¾ S by E of Staplehurst railway station.

Sissinghurst (Trinity Church) is an Ecclesiastical parish in the Diocese of Canterbury created in 1837/1838 from Cranbrook, Kent Ancient Parish. it was originally a chapelry, with Milkhouse Street hamlet, in Cranbrook parish, Kent; 2 miles NE of Cranbrook, and 4¾ S by E of Staplehurst railway station.

Sissinghurst Castle Gardens are internationally famous and were created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson.

Civil Registration
This parish was part of Cranbrook registration district.

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
Sissinghurst 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.

Family History Library film numbers:

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions

 * Cranbrook 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