Allington, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
ALLINGTON (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Malling, hundred of Larkfield, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 1¾ mile (N. N. W.) from Maidstone.

Allington is part of Maidstone in Kent, see Allington Wikipedia.

Allington St Lawrence was an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Rochester although it functioned largely as a chaplery on the road to Allington Castle and was infamous for the 17th and 18th century practice of illegal marriage without banns.

The church was demolished after closure in 1969 being declared redundant in 1971 and the modern church of St Nicholas built on the site.The parish of Allington St. Nicholas with Maidstone St. Peter parish boundary map is available at A church near you

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 448-454 at British History Online for account of the early church and Kent Churches website for an image of the older church.

Civil Registration
This parish was from 1837 in the Malling 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
Allington 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 Aldington, Hurst, Newington and West Hythe are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831

Poor Law Unions
Malling 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

Websites
Allington on GENUKI