Kent, England Genealogy

England Kent

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

County Introduction
In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Kent like this:

'Kent, an important maritime county in SE. of England, bounded N. by the Thames and the North Sea, E. and SE. by the Strait of Dover, S. by the English Channel, SW. by Sussex, and W. by Surrey; greatest length, W. to E., 65 miles; greatest breadth, N. to S., 35 miles; 995,392 ac., pop. 977,706. The surface of the co. is hilly, being traversed E. and W. by the North Downs, a chalk range from 3 to 6 miles in breadth. On the N., along the shores of the Thames and Medway, there is a belt of marshland, which extends over a mile inland. ..."

Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Kent.

Websites



 * Kent Resources and help pages on RootsChat Kent Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * Looking 4 Kin Genealogy &amp; Family History Network - Kent
 * To view a further list of web sites and/or web pages for Kent and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.
 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * England, Kent, Wills and Probate (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * To see a list of Kent parishes and the pre-1858 courts that had probate jurisdiction over them, go to Kent Probate Records.

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 * Kent Online Parish Clerks has transcribed many records of interest to genealogists.


 * Kent History and Library Center in Maidstone houses thousands of old documents about Kent's past.

Unique genealogical features:
 * 1570-1907 at FamilySearch — index and images


 * The majority of Kent's parish registers have been indexed and are available online
 * FamilySearch has digitised Kent wills ; many indexes are available at the Kent Archaeological Society website
 * Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies is located in Canterbury