Coldred, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
COLDRED (St. Pancras), a parish, in the union of Dover, hundred of Bewsborough, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 5 miles NW by N from Dover.

Coldred is a small rural settlement in the civil parish of Shepherdswell with Coldred in the Dover district of Kent. The ancient former Saxon church has relatively few houses nearby and several larger farms. See Coldred Wikipedia

Coldred St Pancras is an Ancient parish; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you

The church of St Pancras Coldred Church Road has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also Kent Archeological Society and Edward Hasted's entry for the parish in "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent": Volume 9 (1800), pp. 385-393 at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Civil Registration
See Dover 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
Coldred parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Poor Law Unions

 * Dover 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.


 * See England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Local Family History Centre

 * Canterbury Family History Centre, Kent
 * Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent
 * FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
 * Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these.

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