Milton St Nicholas, Kent

Parish History
Milton is two and half miles south west of the City of Canterbury in Kent

Milton St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish in Milton near Canterbury. The church was totally rebuilt in 1829-1830 and is adjacent to the former Milton Manor house ( now demolished) The parish was united with Thanington, Kent from 1884; a map of the Thanington parish boundary is available at A church near you

Milton was effectively a chapel to the Manor and was sparsely attended; the rebuilding served only a small group of local families and became unsustainable.

See Kent Archeological Society and Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 (1800), pp. 28-32 at British History Online

Civil Registration
See Bridge 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

Church Records
Archdeacon's transcripts, 1576-1812; Bishop's transcripts, 1614-1848 Some early pages damaged.The population for many years was less than 20 persons, with the Sankey family being the most frequently mentioned. After 1820 the Lake, Chalk and Vincent families are the only ones mentioned.

Canterbury Cathedral Archives reference: DCa/BT/123; DCb/BT1/157; DCb/BT2/206

Archdeacon's transcripts: Baptisms, marriages and burials 1576-1812 (missing: 1576/7-1583/4, 1585/6, 1586/7, 1588/9-1618/9, 1620/1, 1626/7, 1632/3, 1635/6, 1637/8, 1640/1-1660/1, 1667/8-1730/1, 1736/7-1742/3, 1749/50, 1758/9, 1760/1, 1761/2, 1782/3, 1788/9) FHL BRITISH Film 1751980 Item 3 Bishop's transcripts: Baptisms, marriages and burials 1614-1812 (missing: 1621/2, 1627/8, 1640/1-1730/1, 1737/8-1744/5, 1746/7, 1747/8, 1757/8, 1761/2, 1763/4, 1773/4, 1793/4, 1797/8, 1803/4. Gaps occur naturally between events in a small population and are not due to loss of records FHL BRITISH Film 1736878 Item 5 Bishop's transcripts Baptisms and burials 1813-1848 Marriages 1813-1837 FHL BRITISH Film 1835483 Item 7

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Census Records
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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.

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for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Bridge 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 find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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