Canterbury St Alphege, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent

Parish History
The redundant Anglican church of St Alphege is a former parish church of the city dedicated to the memory of a former Archbishop of Canterbury Alphage Wikipedia

The church was declared redundant in 1982, detailed history can be found at Kent Archaeological Society The building became the Canterbury Urban Studies Centre, later renamed the Canterbury Environment Centre; the building has been used by the King's School Canterbury since 2007 for music, drama and lectures. See King's School Canterbury Wikipedia

Civil Registration
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
International Genealogical Index Christenings 1558-1800 Batch (P015201) Marriages 1558-1639; 1653-1800 Batch (M015201)

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. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
Family Search microfilm for Census Returns for the city are at Census returns for Canterbury, 1841-1891

Poor Law Unions
Canterbury 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

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.