New Romney with Hope, Kent Genealogy

Guide to New Romney with Hope, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
ROMNEY, NEW (St. Nicholas), a decayed market-town, a Cinque Port, and parish, having separate jurisdiction, in the union of Romney Marsh, E division of Kent, 34 miles SE from Maidstone, and 68 SE by E from London. Here are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

New Romney is a small town in Romney Marsh in the Shepway district of Kent, see New Romney Wikipedia

New Romney St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; a map of the modern parish boundary is available at A church near you

The Parish Church of St Nicholas, Church Road, New Romney has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See Edward Hasted 'The town and port of New Romney', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 446-464. Date accessed: 30 September 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches

The ruined church of Hope All Saints and parish were incorporated into the parish of St Mary in the Marsh, Kent in 1934. The Ruins of the Church of All Saints Hope, St Mary in the Marsh have been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building See Edward Hasted 'Parishes: Hope All Saints', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 415-420 at British History Online

New Romney Methodist Church, High Street, New Romney is part of South Kent Methodist Circuit see Church website

Civil Registration
See Romney Marsh 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

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
New Romney with Hope parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Original deposited registers are held at Kent History and Library Centre.

Land Tax

 * Images for New Romney are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1689-1832
 * Images for Hope 1780-1831
 * The hundred of Langport See Edward Hasted 'The hundred of Langport: Introduction', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 415 at British History Online

Census records

 * Census returns for New Romney 1841-1891
 * Census returns for Hope All Saints 1841-1891

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.
 * Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
 * Introduction to Family History Centers 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

 * Romney Marsh 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.


 * See England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Local Family History Centre

 * Canterbury Family History Centre, Kent
 * Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent
 * FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
 * Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these.

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