Stone-in-Oxney, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Stone-in-Oxney, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
STONE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tenterden, hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 6½ miles SE from Tenterden.

Stone-in-Oxney is a village and civil parish of Stone-cum-Oxney near Appledore in the Ashford district of Kent. Stone-in-Oxney Wikipedia.

Stone-in-Oxney St Mary is an Ancient Parish; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you.

The church of St Mary, Church Road, Stone 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 8 (1799), pp. 480-486. Date accessed: 14 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website.

This parish should not be confused with Stone (near Dartford), Kent or Stone (next Faversham), Kent.

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Civil Registration
This parish was part of Tenterden registration district Tenterden Registration District Ashford 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.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

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 Stone near Appledore 1841-1891

The FamilySearch Library offers two sets of microfilm numbers at present and care needs to be exercised which film numbers are in fact correct given the possibility of confusion with 2 other places in the county.

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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

 * Tenterden 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.


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 * Canterbury FamilySearch Centre, Kent
 * Maidstone FamilySearch Centre, Kent
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