Ebony, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
EBONY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tenterden, partly in the hundred of Tenterden, Lower division of the lathe of Scray, W division, but chiefly in the hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E division, of Kent, 4 miles SE from Tenterden.

Ebony is a hamlet within the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony on the Isle of Oxney in the Ashford district of Kent; see Ebony, Kent Wikipedia and Stone-cum-Ebony Wikipedia Isle of Oxney Wikipedia Ebony St Mary the Virgin was formed as a chapelry within Appledore, Kent Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury. The original church was on a site some way away but the settlement moved to Reading Street and the original church abandoned. In 1858 the present church was moved stone by stone and erected to a similar design as the original which is referred to in the list of churches from 1070 AD for Kent.

There is now no evidence of the Isle in the tidal River Rother on which the church stood other than in the place name. The modern parish is part of the Wittersham and Ebony benefice, fortnightly services are held in the church.

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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

 * 1837-1894 Tenterden Registration District
 * 1894-1998 Ashford 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

 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * 1841-1891 Census returns for Ebony
 * Findmypast Census ($)

Land Tax

 * 1780-1831 England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records

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.


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

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Ebony Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Parish Church of ST Mary the Virgin British Listed Buildings
 * Parishes: Ebeney British History Online
 * St Mary Stone In Oxney Kent Churches
 * St Mary the Virgin A Church Near You