Hoo Allhallows, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
ALLHALLOWS, a parish, in the union and hundred of Hoo, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 9 miles NE from Rochester.

Hoo Allhallows All Saints is an Ancient Parish on the Hoo peninsula in the Medway district of Kent.

The church is 12th century with later additions and was restored 1886-1891 by Ewan Christian and is designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage. All Hallows All Saints Stoke Road Allhallows British listed buildings

Allhallows is a village and civil parish on the Hoo peninsula; the village is in two parts the ancient Hoo All Hallows and the 20th century holiday settlement All Hallows-on-Sea. See Allhallows Kent Wikipedia.

See Kent Archeological Society and 'Parishes: All Hallows', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 27-34 at British History Online for history of the church and parish and Kent Churches website.

Civil Registration
This parish was part of Hoo sub district Chatham Registration District and registrations from July 1837 to the present day are held at

Medway district The Register Office Northgate Rochester ME1 1LS Telephone 01634 338902 Fax 01634 338913 register.office@medway.gov.uk

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

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

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

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records
Census returns for Hoo Allhallows 1841-1891

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.

To locate local Family History Centres in UK To locate Family History Centers outside UK. Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

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


 * Find my Past census search 1841-1901

Poor Law Unions

 * Hoo 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.

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