Kedington, Essex Genealogy and Suffolk

Parish History
Kedington, or Ketton, is a village and a parish in Risbridge district; the village and most of the parish is in Suffolk, but part of it is in Essex. The village stands on the River Stour, 2 1/2 miles ENE of Haverhill railway station. The parish contains also Brockley Green, Great Wilsey, and the Risbridge workhouse.

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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.

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

Additional places included in this parish are Great Wilsey and Brockley Green.

Records for this parish in the FamilySearch Catalog.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Particular Baptist
 * 1613-1971 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex 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

Websites
Kedington in Suffolk on GENUKI

Essex Ancestors- offers images of genealogical records for the county of Essex ($)