Little Mongeham, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent

Parish History
The Ancient Parish of Little Mongeham lost it's parish church to ruin in the 18th century.

Edward Hasted in his 1800 History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent Volume 9 pp 579-583 describes the Domesday Survey entry which refers to the church and manor which he says was ruined by 1800.

The parish was absorbed by Sutton by Dover, Kent parish

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
Family History Library film numbers contains Archdeacon's transcripts, 1558-1812; Bishop's transcripts, 1611-1900 for Sutton by Dover, Kent and land tax assessment records only. Original records housed at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent.

Census records
Little Mongeham Census returns 1841-1891

Poor Law Unions
Eastry 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

Web sites
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