Speldhurst, Kent Genealogy

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Parish History
Speldhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent Speldhurst Wikipedia

Speldhurst St Mary the Virgin was an Ancient Parish and included part of Tunbridge Wells town, also Groombridge chapel, Rusthall and Langton Green

The church of St Mary the Virgin has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See Speldhurst North West Kent Family History Society for other places of worship and Speldhurst St Mary the Virgin

See also Groombridge St John the Evangelist

The chapel of St John the Evangelist Groombridge Hill has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Rusthall St Paul

Langton Green All Saints Groombridge Hill The church of All Saints Langton Green has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Civil Registration
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
Original deposited registers are held at:

Centre for Kentish Studies,County Hall,Maidstone,Kent ME14 1XX

01622 694363

Fax: 01622 694379

archives@kent.gov.uk

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

International Genealogical Index Christenings 1862-1889 Batch (C165173)

Family History Library film numbers

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
Census returns for Speldhurst 1841-1891

Poor Law Unions
Tonbridge 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

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