Brenchley, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRENCHLEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Tonbridge, hundred of Brenchley and Horsmonden, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 4¼ miles N from Lamberhurst. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. Brenchley is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells borough and district of Kent. The parish includes neighbouring village of Matfield.

Brenchley All Saints is an Ancient Parish. Paddock Wood St Andrew Queen Street This parish was formed from part of Brenchley parish also Yalding, Kent and Nettlestead, Kent parishes.

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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

 * 1837-1979 Tonbridge Registration District
 * 1980-2003 Tunbridge Wells 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.


 * Ancestry UK Census Collection
 * Findmypast Census

Land Tax
Images for Brenchley, Horsmonden, Kent Pembury, Kent and Yalding, Kent available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832

Images for Borough of Yalding are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831 The borough of Yalding comprised Yalding, Kent Horsmonden, Kent Brenchley and Hunton, Kent within the Land Tax bundle at the Centre for Kentish Studies Maidstone.

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.
 * 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

 * All Saints A Church Near You
 * All Saints British Listed Buildings
 * All Saints Brenchley Kent Churches
 * Brenchley GENUKI]
 * Brenchley North West Kent Family History Society
 * Brenchley and Horsmonden: Introduction British History Online
 * Parishes: Brenchley British History Online
 * St Andrew Paddock Wood Kent Churches