Snodland, Kent Genealogy

England Kent  Kent Parishes

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



Parish History
Snodland is a small town on the River Medway in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, see Snodland Wikipedia

Snodland All Saints with Christ Church is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester which included Holborough and Rookery. There are two churches within the Ancient Parish which form the benefice; see church website

Lower Birling Christ Church dates from 1896 and was built to accommodate the growing population in the area; see Kent Churches website

The church of All Saints Mill Street Snodland has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 463-470. Date accessed: 21 October 2013.

at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Snodland North West Kent Family History Society which includes other places of worship in the town of Snodland and Snodland All Saints

The disused church of Our Lady of the Meadow, Wrangling Lane, Snodland has been designated as a grade II* listed building British lsited building

Congregational Church: Providence, Holborough Rd dates from1822 and moved later to the High St (1888). Original registers begin in 1836.

Swedenborgian (New Jerusalem) Church in High Street Snodland dates from 1880/1881. The Church of New Jerusalem, has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

Civil Registration
This parish was from 1837 in the Malling registration district

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

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

International Genealogical Index Batch Numbers


 * Christenings 1559-1860 Batches (C135131, C135132)
 * Marriages 1559-1837 Batches (M135131, M135132)

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

Census records
Census returns for Snodland and Paddlesworth, 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. to locate local Family History Centres in UK 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

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

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
SNODLAND (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Malling, hundred of Larkfield, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 2½ miles (N. E. by N.) from West Mailing.

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