Sutton at Hone, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Sutton at Hone, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SUTTON-AT-HONE (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Dartford, hundred of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 2½ miles S by E from Dartford. Here are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

Sutton-at-Hone is a village within the Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley civil parish Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley Wikipedia and Sutton-at-Hone Wikipedia

Sutton-at-Hone St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish which included Hawley and Swanley; the village of Hextable grew in the 1870s from a settlement and became a separate village and civil parish from Sutton-at-Hone. Hextable Wikipedia

The church of St John the Baptist Church Road Sutton-at-Hone has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 343-367. Date accessed: 14 November 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Other places of worship include:


 * Bethesda Baptist Church, Main Rd which dates from 1834.


 * Wesleyan Chapel Main Rd, Hextable which dates from 1896.


 * Wesleyan Church Ship Lane which dates from 1880.

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Civil Registration
See Dartford registration District

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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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
Census returns for Sutton-at-Hone 1841-1891

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Poor Law Unions

 * Dartford 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.


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Maps and Gazetteers
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