Cudham, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
CUDHAM (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Bromley, hundred of Ruxley, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 7 miles SE by S from Bromley.

Cudham, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent. It is an extensive but thinly inhabited parish, nearly seven miles in length. The village stands near the boundary with Surrey, 3 miles southwest of Chelsfield rail station, and 7 miles south-south-east of Bromley and was once a market town. The manor belonged anciently to the Apperfields. The Church dates from the 12th century and is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is an old building of flint and brick in the Perpendicular style, with a steeple rising from the middle with 9 bells, the oldest dating from 1490. The modern parish is part of a united benefice with Downe, Kent in the Diocese of Rochester.

The parish workhouse was situated at Leaves Green.

From this parish was formed the parish of Biggin Hill in the twentieth century development along the Westerham- Bromley Road. Biggin Hill was developed to the north of Aperfield in the twentieth century.

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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

 * 1837-1934 Bromley 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 ($)
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
 * 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 Cudham 1841-1891
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * FindMyPast Census ($)

Kent Online Parish Clerks Census transcripts:
 * 1871 Census Enumeration District 16 Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * 1871 Census Enumeration District 17 Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * 1891 Census Kent Online Parish Clerks

Poor Law Unions

 * Bromley Poor Law Union The parish workhouse prior to the opening of the Union Workhouse at Locksbottom in 1844 was situated at Leaves Green.

The Cudham Parish Workhouse was built in 1731 at Leaves Green.

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. croll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.


 * England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Church of St Peter and St Paul British listed building
 * Cudham GENUIKI
 * Cudham Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Ss Peter And Paul Cudham Kent Churches