Tilmanstone, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
TILMANSTONE (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Eastry, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 6 miles W by S from Deal.

Tilmanstone is a village and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, see Tilmanstone Wikipedia.

Tilmanstone St Andrew is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; the church is 11th century and the yew tree outside is over a thousand years old. A map of the parish boundary may be found at A church near you

Tilmanstone St Andrew, Upper Street, Tilmanstone has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

The church contains a brass to Richard Fogge (circa 1482).

There is also a set of village stocks.

Tilmanstone colliery (1906-1986) was one of four in the Kent coalfield but is nearer the village of Eythorne to the west of Tilmanstone, see Coalfields Heritage Initiative Kent.

See also Edward Hasted's entry for Tilmanstone, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 10 (1800), pp. 78-87. Date accessed: 21 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Civil Registration
Eastry Registration District

Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.

The Mansion House (Certificate Centre) Grove Hill Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1EP

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
Tilmanstone parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Land Tax
Images for Tilmanstone are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1831

Census Records
Census returns for Tilmanstone 1841-1891

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
 * Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
 * Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK.
 * Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.


 * Ancestry UK Census Collection
 * Find my Past census search 1841-1901

Poor Law Unions

 * Eastry 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