Canterbury St Dunstan, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



Parish History
Canterbury St Dunstan is an Ancient Parish in the city.

The church is referred to in 1174 as the place which King Henry II in his penitential pilgimage following the murder of Thoams a Becket in the Canterbury Catehdral, changed into sackcloth.

The church contains memorials to the Roper family, Margaret daughter of Sir Thomas More and wife of William Roper.

St Dunstan also contains a recent stained glass window to commemorate the visit of Pope John Paul II to Canterbury.

Civil Registration
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
Family History Library film numbers  original records at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives, The Precincts, in Canterbury, England.Canterbury Cathedral Archives call nos.: U3/141/1/1-24.

International Genealogical Index Christenings 1560-1800 Batch (P015151) Marriages 1560-1800 Batch (M015151)

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.

Census records
Contributor: Include an overview if there is any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed. Add a link to online sites for indexes and/or images. Also add a link to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection. See Kent Census

Poor Law Unions
Blean 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

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.