Luddesdown, Kent Genealogy

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Parish History
Luddesdown is a civil parish in the Gravesham district of Kent since 1974; previously it was part of Strood Rural District. Luddesdown Wikipedia The civil parish includes the hamlets of Great Buckland and Boughurst Street.

Luddesdown St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish which includes Henley Street and Poundgate.

The church originated in the 13th century but was virtually rebuilt or recased in 1866 by R B Pope and has been designated as a grade II* listed building by English Heritage.British listed building

Luddesdown civil parish is a large rural area of the North Downs centred on Luddesdown Court and the associated church and includes the small Norman Chapel at Dode, which is now in the ecclesiastical parish of Snodland, Kent but was lost as a village to the Black Death in 1349.

See Luddesdown North West Kent Family History Society and Luddesdown St Peter and St Paul

The mission church of Leywood was within the parish and has registers from 1870.

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
Luddesdown (sometimes Luddesdowne) St Peter and St Paul Christenings Marriages Burials 1681-1995 reference P235

digital images may be searched online at Medway Archives City Ark project http://cityark.medway.gov.uk

International Genealogical Index Christenings 1587-1663 (Extracts) Batch (C151011) Marriages 1613-1642; 1768-1812 Batches (M151011, M151012)

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 Luddesdown 1841-1891

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.