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 (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 1930's 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
Family History Library film numbers

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

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

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain