Hartlip, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
HARTLIP (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Milton, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E division of Kent, 4¾ miles W from Sittingbourne.

Hartlip is a village and civil parish in the Swale District of Kent, see Hartlip Wikipedia.

Hartlip St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you.

The church dates from the 13th to 15th century and was restored by R.C. Hussey in 1864-1865 after tower repair in 1855 and has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building.

The village and civil parish are on the old Roman road Watling Street at Hartlip Hill..

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6 (1798), pp. 15-24 at British History Online and Kent Churches website.

The Cardiphonia United Methodist Church dates from 1821.

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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Church Records
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Church of England
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 * 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 Hartlip 1841-1891

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Poor Law Unions

 * Milton 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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