Bredhurst, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
BREDHURST (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Hollingbourne, hundred of Eyhorne, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 5 miles SSE from Chatham. There is a small dissenters' place of worship.

Bredhurst is a village and civil parish within the Maidstone district of Kent. Bredhurst was formed initially as a chapelry within Hollingbourne, Kent Ancient parish but later became an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Rochester.

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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

 * 1837-1941 Hollinghourne District
 * 1941-2003 Maidstone Registration District
 * 2003-Current Kent 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
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
 * Census returns for Bredhurst 1841-1891


 * Ancestry UK Census Collection
 * Findmypast Census

Poor Law Unions

 * Hollingbourne 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Bredhurst Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Church of St Peter British Listed Buildings
 * Parishes: Bredhurst British History Online
 * St Peter Bredhurst Kent Churches
 * St Peter Church, Bredhurst Kent Archaeological Society