Milton Chapel, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Milton Chapel, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
MILTON CHAPEL (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Westgate, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 2½ miles SW by W from Canterbury.

Milton is two and half miles south west of the City of Canterbury in Kent

Milton St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish in Milton near Canterbury. The church was totally rebuilt in 1829-1830 and is adjacent to the former Milton Manor house (now demolished) The parish was united with Thanington, Kent from 1884; a map of the Thanington parish boundary is available at A church near you

Milton was effectively a chapel to the Manor and was sparsely attended; the rebuilding served only a small group of local families and became unsustainable.

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 (1800), pp. 28-32 at British History Online

Civil Registration
See Bridge Registration District

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

Church Records
Milton Chapel parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Census Records
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.


 * Click here to locate local Family History Centres in UK
 * Click here to locate outside UK.
 * Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.


 * Ancestry UK Census Collection
 * Find my Past census search 1841-1901

Poor Law Unions

 * Bridge 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 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

Websites

 * Milton on GENUKI