Canterbury St Peter, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



Parish History
Contributor: Add a general overview of the history of this parish. It can be a few sentences or a couple of paragraphs.

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
For an overview of the City Canterbury Kent Online Parish Clerks FamilySearch microfilm holdings are not readily pin pointed due to the hierarchy of the currently available catalogue online, the search terms England, Kent, Canterbury produce 206 microfilm holdings. Family History Library film numbers Archdeacon's transcripts, 1563-1812; Bishop's transcripts, 1603-1898 original records housed at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent.

Some early pages damaged.

"For 1883-1892, the entries are for the parish of St. Peter with Holy Cross; the 1894 entries are for St. Peter alone, and in 1898 there are separate returns for St. Peter and Holy Cross parishes."

Canterbury Cathedral Archives no.: DCa/BT/47; DCb/BT1/55; DCb/BT2/61

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
Family Search microfilm for Census Returns for the city are at Census returns for Canterbury, 1841-1891

Poor Law Unions
Canterbury 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.