Hoo Allhallows, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
ALLHALLOWS, a parish, in the union and hundred of Hoo, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 9 miles NE from Rochester.

Hoo Allhallows All Saints is an Ancient Parish on the Hoo peninsula in the Medway district of Kent.

Allhallows is a village and civil parish on the Hoo peninsula; the village is in two parts the ancient Hoo All Hallows and the 20th century holiday settlement All Hallows-on-Sea. Allhallows Kent Wikipedia.

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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.

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1923 Hoo
 * 1923-1941 Strood and Hoo
 * 1941-1998 Chatham
 * 1998-present Medway (Unitary)

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Kent ($)
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * Ancestry UK Census Collection
 * Census returns for Hoo Allhallows 1841-1891
 * FindMyPast Census 1841-1901

Land Tax

 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records Hoo Allhallows 1780-1832

Poor Law Unions

 * Hoo 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

Websites

 * Chatham Registration District
 * Details of civil registration districts within Kent Kent Family Medway district
 * Hoo Allhallows Church History British History Online
 * Hoo Allhallows British Listed Buildings
 * Hoo Allhallows Kent Churches
 * Hoo Allhallows Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Medway Archives Center History Society