Chiddingstone, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHIDDINGSTONE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Seven-Oaks, hundred of Somerden, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 8 miles SSW from Seven-Oaks.

Chiddingstone is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent. The village of Chiddingstone Causeway and the hamlet Chiddingstone Hoath are also included in the parish.

Chiddingstone St Mary is an Ancient Parish which included Chiddingstone Hoath and Little Chiddingstone in the parish boundary.

The church of St Luke Chiddingstone Causeway. St Luke's was built in 1897-8 to a design by John Francis Bentley (1839-1902), the architect of Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral. It replaced a temporary corrugated iron building erected c.1873 to accommodate the expanding population based on the development of the cricket bat and ball factory in the village.

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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

 * 1837-1941 Sevenoaks Registration District
 * 1941-1979 Tonbridge 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 ($)
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical record
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
 * 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 Chiddingstone 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection($)
 * Findmypast Census($)

Poor Law Unions

 * Penshurst Poor Law Union,Kent until 1836
 * Sevenoaks 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * St Luke Chiddingstone Causeway Kent Churches
 * St Mary A Church Near You
 * St Mary Chiddingstone Kent Churches
 * St Mary, Chiddingstone, Church of England GENUKI
 * The Church of St Mary British Listed Buildings