Canterbury All Saints, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Canterbury All Saints, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Canterbury, All Saints is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Canterbury. The church is named All Saints with original parish registers commencing 1559. The complex history of the churches on different sites is available at Kent Family History Society.

The Ancient Parish of All Saints was merged with Canterbury St Alphege, Kent in 1902 but the building remained in use as a hall until 1937 demolition. Canterbury Garrison Church was renamed All Saints Church in 1974.

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
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 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Civil Registration
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.

Registration Districts
The All Saints Church was named Canterbury in 1897
 * 1837-1897 Canterbury Registration district
 * 1897-1974 Canterbury Registration district

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
 * Canterbury Cathedral Archives

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * Census returns for Canterbury, 1841-1891

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
 * FindMyPast Census

Poor Law Unions

 * Canterbury 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Canterbury GENUKI
 * Canterbury - All Saints Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Canterbury: The churches within the city and suburbs British History Online