Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity, Kent Genealogy

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



Parish History
Royal Tunbridge Wells (usually shortened to Tunbridge Wells) is a town and district in Kent. Royal Tunbridge Wells Wikipedia

Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity was created as an Ecclesisatical Parish in 1833 from Tonbridge St Peter and St Paul, Kent.

The church was designed by architect Decimus Burton (1800-1881) and was the first Anglican church in the new Georgian town of Tunbridge Wells.

The church was de-commissioned and declared redundant in 1975. The building became Trinity Arts Centre in 1983.

For further churches in Tunbridge Wells refer to Tunbridge Wells North West Kent Family History Society

Here is an important jurisdictional perspective by Samuel A. Lewis, "A Tolpographical Dictionary of England" (1848) pp. XXX-XXX. Date accessed: 25 November 2013.

TONBRIDGE, or TUNBRIDGE, WELLS, a market-town and chapelry, partly in the parish and lowey of Tonbridge, and partly in the parish of Speldhurst, hundred of Washlingstone, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent. The district church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There are places of worship for the Connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon, Independents, and Wesleyans; and a Roman Catholic chapel.

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.

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

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

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

Tunbridge Wells St Barnabas parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Tunbridge Wells St James parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Tunbridge Wells St John parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Tunbridge Wells St Peter parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Census records
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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.

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.

Poor Law Unions
Tonbridge 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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