Edenbridge, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
EDENBRIDGE (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Seven-Oaks, hundred of Westerham, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 12 miles SW from Seven-Oaks. The Independents have a place of worship.

Edenbridge St Peter and St Paul is a 13th century church which originally was formed as a chapelry of Westerham, Kent Ancient Parish. It became an Ecclesiastical parish in 1814 and includes nearby Marsh Green within its boundary. Part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Lingfield, Surrey and Limpsfield, Surrey Edenbridge lies on the Eden Brook which is part of the Upper River Medway and was the town central to the mediaeval Wealden iron industry. There are many timber framed buildings in the town. It has two stations on separate railway lines which lead to growth of the town in the nineteenth century. There are four watermills in the parish, Haxted Mill (now a museum) and Honour's Mill on the River Eden itself and Christmas Mill on a tributary. There is also a windmill. The western parish boundary forms the Kent/Surrey county boundary with neighbouring parishes of Limpsfield, Surrey and Lingfield, Surrey

Edenbridge also included:
 * Edenbridge Bethel Baptist Church: Built 1841 and enlarged 1853, 1892/3.
 * Edenbridge Independent church: (c.1800). Original registers from 1806.
 * St Lawrence Roman Catholic Church: Built in 1808
 * Marsh Green Presbyterian St John's Greybury church: Built 1882 No information on registers.

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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 Sevenoaks Registration District
 * 1941-1998 Tonbridge 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 ($)
 * Census returns for Edenbridge 1841-1891
 * Findmypast Census ($)

Poor Law Unions

 * Penshurst Poor Law Union,Kent until 1836
 * Sevenoaks 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

 * Church of ST Peter and ST Paul British Listed Buildings
 * Edenbridge Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Parishes: Eatonbridge British History Online
 * Ss Peter And Paul Edenbridge Kent Churches
 * St Peter & St Paul Edenbridge A Church Near You
 * St Peter & St Paul Church, Edenbridge Kent Archeological Society
 * The Ebenezer Chapel British Listed Buildings