Woodnesborough, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
WOODNESBOROUGH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Eastry, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, 1¾ mile (W. S. W.) from Sandwich.

Woodnesborough is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent, two miles west of Sandwich, see Woodnesborough Wikipedia

Woodnesborough St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; the church dates from about 1200 and was restored in later centuries including the 1888 restoration by Christian. A map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you and the modern parish is part of the united benefice of Woodnesborough with Worth, Kent and Staple, Kent

The church is designated a grade II* listed building by English Heritage. British Listed building

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 10 (1800), pp. 121-144 at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Civil Registration
Eastry Registration District and Thanet Registration District

Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.

The Mansion House (Certificate Centre) Grove Hill Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1EP

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Land Tax
Images for Woodnesborough are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832.

Poor Law Unions
Eastry 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.